An evaluation of crowdsourced information for assessing the visitation and perceived importance of protected areas

Applied Geography

Volumn 79, Issue , 2017, Pages 115-126

  Levin, Noam ^a,b   Lechner, Alex Mark ^b,c   Brown, Greg ^b,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flickr; OpenStreetMap; Place values; Public participation GIS (PPGIS); Volunteered geographic information (VGI); Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GIS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PROTECTED AREA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 85008601956     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.12.009     Document Type: Article

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