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 …

Public participation GIS (PPGIS) methods have progressed over the last decade, but as a
rapidly evolving practice and area of research, there are new challenges. To identify the key …

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 …

To enter widespread use, ecosystem service assessments need to be quantifiable,
replicable, credible, flexible, and affordable. With recent growth in the field of ecosystem …

The number of public participation GIS (PPGIS) applications to inform local and regional
land, use planning has increased significantly over the last decade. An important rationale …

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) planning is a new approach to planning that aims to
develop multifunctional networks of green and blue spaces designed and managed to …

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

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 …

Whilst biophysical, and increasingly economic, values are often used to define high priority
hotspots in planning for conservation and environmental management, community values …

The study of cognition can provide key insights into the social dimension of coupled social-
ecological systems. Values are a fundamental aspect of cognition, which have largely been …