Engaging the wisdom of crowds and public judgement for land use planning using public participation geographic information systems

Australian Planner

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 199-209

  Brown, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

land use planning; PPGIS; public judgement; public participation GIS; wisdom of crowds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941806482     PISSN: 07293682     EISSN: 21506841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2015.1034147     Document Type: Article

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