The concept of “place” links people to their environment and is foundational to disciplines
such as geography, environmental psychology, and urban studies. With growth in …

We review public participation GIS (PPGIS) and participatory GIS (PGIS) approaches for
ecosystem services to identify current and best practice. PPGIS/PGIS are spatially explicit …

Today, various methods are applied to analyze the data collected through participatory
mapping, including public participation GIS (PPGIS), participatory GIS (PGIS), and collecting …

As human pressures on ecosystems continue to increase, research involving the effective
incorporation of social values information into the context of comprehensive ecosystem …

This paper examines the relationships between place attachment and landscape values
using two measures of place attachment—a psychometric, scale-based measure [Williams …

The dearth of socio-perceptual information on urban green spaces is not only limiting for
ecosystem service research, but also for effective planning and management of these …

Despite widespread recognition that social-value information is needed to inform
stakeholders and decision makers regarding trade-offs in environmental management, it too …

Traditional survey research measures attributes such as opinions, attitudes, beliefs, values,
norms, and preferences. Few public surveys have attempted to map perceived spatial …

This paper advances the concept of a coupled social–ecological system (SES), where
human and biophysical systems are closely linked, to examine and explain variations in …

This paper describes research to evaluate the use of a public participation geographic
information system (PPGIS) methodology for national park planning. Visitor perceptions of …