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...

among modern media the internet has an outstanding position. quick prevalent of communication technology provide this question that, what is the role of these communication tools about public participation, social and political change in around the world? in this study we evaluate effect of social media on transparency and public trust with the moderating role of public participation in practic...

We estimate food waste at the individual household level indirectly using a stochastic production frontier approach. The estimated average percentage of waste is 32.4%. However, by taking proxied physical activities into consideration and utilizing limited information maximum likelihood estimation, our estimate for average household food waste is reduced to 27.6%. We are also able to explore th...

This article undertakes a multivariate analysis of political participation among Mexican American immigrants. Traditional forms of participation such as registration and voting are not adequate tests of civic engagement for a population including 7 million noncitizens. Rather, this article examines nonelectoral participation including attending a meeting or rally, volunteering for a campaign, o...

Public participation increasingly occurs in the context of modern GIS applications and goes much further than just crowd sourcing. Those web based applications enables the user to be actively involved in urban planning processes. Additionally, planners do profit from the participation of public. By the example of charging station for e-bikes, the participatory planning process is shown in this ...

the economic and social impact of public participation in hableh roud project has been assessed in the current study. this is a practical-operational research implemented as based upon descriptive method. the study population included 187 individual residents in 8 villages within the hableh roud catchment basin in tehran province. random sampling was utilized and the recommendations of experts ...