As the public becomes more knowledgeable about environmental concerns and health risks, the issue of public participation will become more challenging. The field of risk communication is a key element in environmental clean-up programs and continues to grow rapidly. Waste management organizations must move beyond past practices of simply reassuring the public and instead work to educate and act...

Research on public-participation geo-spatial technologies is largely directed at taking advantage of the potential broad reach of the Internet. In particular, Web-based GIS applications support asynchronous participation by individuals in different locations. Public involvement is, however, facilitated to a significant extent at community meetings and charettes where people meet face-to-face, r...

Increasing societal inclination towards participatory democracy is encouraging research on the development and use of public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS). This paper summarizes three scenarios describing actual and/or potential use of a PPGIS. One scenario concerns a public-private coalition strategy for brownfield development (urban land rehabilitation) in and near Seat...

Internet GIS, serving spatial data and GIS functionality on the web, offers a special and potentially important means to facilitate public participation in the planning and decisionmaking process. In this paper I discuss a framework for the design of a web-based public participation system (WPPS) that integrates Internet GIS, Internet communications, and scenario-building tools. The design fram...

the aim of the present paper is to study the impact of public awareness and social cohesion on social participation of women in iran. since women constitute half of the population, their participation in political, economic, social and cultural areas can play an important role in community development. the study employs modernization approach as the conceptual framework and data collection is b...

citizen relationship management: study of its relationship with public participation, public accountability and transparency in 3’s region of city of tehran.this research seeks to study the role of citizen relationship management in the promotion of public participation, accountability and transparency of the public.this study aimed to identify the effect of increasing citizen relationship mana...