Facilitating participatory multilevel decision-making by using interactive mental maps

Geospatial Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-112

  Pfeiffer, Constanze ^a   Glaser, Stephanie ^b   Vencatesan, Jayshree ^c   Schliermann Kraus, Elke ^b   Drescher, Axel ^b   Glaser, Rüdiger ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Care Earth   (India)

Author keywords

Decision making; Health research; India; Participatory mapping; Risk assessment; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TROPIC CLIMATE; URBANIZATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WETLAND;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; EIDETIC IMAGERY; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INDIA; MAPS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TROPICAL CLIMATE; URBANIZATION; WETLANDS;

EID: 58849100049     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2008.236     Document Type: Article

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