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Conference paper, 2006

Mapping Your Community : a Swedish Case Study on Communication of Landscape Qualities on the Internet and Attitudes towards Public Participation

Östlund, Niclas

Abstract

The Internet is now more widely used than ever for presentation of physical planning issues. Civil servants supply the public with maps, texts and images to create understanding and approval of the democratic process underlying the development of our surroundings. In the present study, efforts have been made to improve communication between those who plan and those affected by plans. The study has been conducted using five focus groups and three individual interviews with representatives stretching from citizens to civil servants and politicians. They have all been asked about their experiences of public participation in the planning process and their attitudes towards this process. The interviewees have then been asked to give their opinions on experienced characteristics of a given landscape using a GIS web application. The analysis method used in the application is called ‘the Eight Main Characteristics’ (Berggren-Bärring and Grahn 1995). The application is a way to communicate the public’s opinion on the landscape qualities to make a composite map that can be used early in a planning procedure

Keywords

Internet; GIS; Public Participation; Landscape Qualities

Published in


Publisher: URISA

Conference

URISA Annual conference

      SLU Authors

    • Östlund, Niclas

      • Department of Landscape Planning Alnarp, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Landscape Architecture
    Social Sciences
    Economics and Business

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/11050