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Participatory GIS — a people's GIS?

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Dunn, Christine E.·2007·Progress in Human Geography
DOI 10.1177/0309132507081493
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Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of applications of GIS which grant legitimacy to indigenous geographical knowledge as well as to `official' spatial data. By incorporating various forms of community participation these newer framings of Geographical Information Systems as `Participatory GIS' (PGIS) offer a response to the critiques of GIS which were prevalent in the 1990s. This paper reviews PGIS in the context of the `democratization of GIS'. It explores aspects of the control and ownership of geographical information, representations of local and indigenous knowledge, scale and scaling up, web-based approaches and some potential future technical and academic directions.

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Authors
Dunn, C. E.
Venue
Progress in Human Geography
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2007-10
Volume
31
Issue
5
Pages
616-637
ISSN
  • 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0288
DOI
10.1177/0309132507081493
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573
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62
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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