Community engagement for sustainable urban futures

Mapping Community Engagement with Urban Crowd-Sourcing

Cities are highly dynamic entities, with urban elements such as businesses, cultural and social Points-ofInterests (POIs), housing, transportation and the like, continuously changing. In order to maintain accurate spatial information in these settings, crowd-sourcing models of data collection, such as in OpenStreetMap (OSM), have come under investigation. Like many crowd-sourcing platforms (e.g...

Sustainable Community Development and Urban Design

Informing Digital Futures - Strategies for Citizen Engagement

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Conservation Ecology: Theories for Sustainable Futures

Sustainable designs driven by conservation interests often ignore the needs for an adaptive form of economic development that emphasizes human economic enterprise and institutional flexibility. Those driven by economic and industrial interests often act as if the uncertainty of nature can be replaced with human engineering and management controls, or ignored all together. Those driven by social...

Groundwater and Planning: Sustainable Allocation, Monitoring and Community Engagement

The management of scarce groundwater resources involves numerous complex challenges, not least developing appropriate allocation limits for extraction and establishing efficient and equitable allocation between competing uses at various interacting scales. Practitioners, lawmakers and scholars continue to struggle with designing water governance approaches that adequately address these challeng...