PPGIS in Community Development Planning: Framing the Organizational Context

Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 83-105

  Elwood, Sarah ^a   Ghose, Rina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Influencing role of organizations in PPGIS and local variability in PPGIS; Local infrastructure supporting PPGIS and citizen participation; Local variability of public participation GIS (PPGIS) by urban community revitalization organizations; Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (NWSCDC); Organizational context of PPGIS production; Organizational GIS literature role of institutional practices in shaping GIS implementation, a useful starting point; Organizational stability, influencing areas of organizational knowledge and network formation; PPGIS in community development planning framing the organizational context; PPGIS production, as processes acquisition and application of hardware, software and spatial data for GIS analysis; PPGIScience, need to develop conceptual frameworks synthesizing and conceptualizing processes of PPGIS production and impacts

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY;

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; LOCAL VARIABILITIES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; ORGANIZATIONAL GIS LITERATURE - ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES IN SHAPING GIS IMPLEMENTATION, A USEFUL STARTING POINT; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; SPATIAL DATA;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84886139401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470669488.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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