Special Issue "Public Participation in 2021: New Forms, New Modes, New Questions?"

A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ryan Burns
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Guest Editor
Department of Geography, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, ES 356, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: digital geographies; critical GIScience; political economy; critical social theory; digital humanitarianism; geocomputation
Dr. Johannes Flacke
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Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: collaborative urban planning; stakeholder participation; interactive planning and decision support systems; PSS co-design; usability and impact studies
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Prof. Dr. Rina Ghose
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Guest Editor
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Interests: IoT; critical GIS; PPGIS; environmental and social justice; citizen participation; smart city
Prof. Dr. Francis Harvey
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Guest Editor
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Schongauer Str. 9, D-04328 Leipzig, Germany
Interests: GIS; geo-visualization; historical geography; semantics; GIScience

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Description

Public participation is attracting new interest and concerns, especially in the context of smart city discussions around the world and associated information technology developments, through considerations of professional and academic work. Increased interactivity with web-based GI-Toolsets, new and richer datasets from sensors and mobile devices, the wide availability of LiDAR data, and increased capacities of SDI-based infrastructures allow us to reimagine what public participation can be and what it can achieve. The smart city vision opens up new vistas for thinking about how and what citizens and governments can realize through public participation. It also leads to critical reflections on past experiences regarding what is possible through public participation and how to improve current research. We are particularly interested in contributions engaging with projects and issues in the Global South for this Special Issue, with additional support for those contributions (see below).

Topics include:

- Planning support system developments and practices;

- Interactive public participation systems (kiosks, web sites, etc.);

- Collaborative approaches to participation;

- Citizen engagement strategies;

- Participatory design;

- Participation and urban dynamics;

- Citizen science and participation;

- Mobile society and challenges of public participation in a globalizing world;

- Cooperative maps and atlases;

- Resistance with and through participation;

- Emotional dimensions of participation;

- Microgeographies as community strategies and politics;

- Counter-mapping and its participation politics;

- Indigenous mapping and participation strategies;

- Conceptual issues of public participation for the 21st century.

Contribution Formats

Following the IJGI guidelines and its open-access principles (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/instructions and https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/apc), the Special Issue includes academic papers that go through the journal’s standard review process. We also aim to support the presentation of work from the Global South, which can include topical collections through reviews of submitted abstracts. Authors can submit at any time, but a special abstract review allows us to give potential contributors advanced feedback and helps to evaluate possibilities and make recommendations to assist with the journal’s article processing charge (APC). Please indicate your desired article format and need for assistance with the APC when you upload your abstract to ((website using simple form following GDPR)).

Since 2012, IJGI has published several hundred articles yearly on a broad range of topics related to geoinformation. For reference, the last published Impact Factor is 2.899 and the 5-year Impact Factor is 2.971 (please see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi for current information). The average time from submission to publication is 59 days. The overall rejection rate is currently 66%.

Copyright remains with the authors of published articles. All accepted publications appear as Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

Contribution Publication

IJGI has a standard article processing charge of CHF 1400, reduced to CHF 700 for this Special Issue for Public Participation in 2021. There is an additional possibility of extending waivers to some authors working on projects or issues in the global South. To equitably distribute the waivers, we ask you to indicate interest in obtaining a waiver and possible resources you may have to help cover some of these costs when you submit an abstract.

Timeline

Draft submission: at any time, suggested by 20 October 2021, to the IJGI submission system

Revised manuscript submission: ongoing after acceptance or rejection notifications

Online publication: (all articles appear shortly after acceptance and are added to the Special Issue, which will appear in its entirety in early summer 2022.

Dr. Ryan Burns
Dr. Johannes Flacke
Prof. Dr. Rina Ghose
Prof. Dr. Francis Harvey
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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The Role of Participatory Village Maps in Strengthening Public Participation Practice
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(8), 512; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10080512 - 29 Jul 2021
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This study investigated the role of participatory village maps in strengthening the Musrenbang, an annual multi-stakeholder public consultation forum to discuss development issues and plans in Indonesia. We evaluated the Musrenbang in five villages in Deli Serdang District after conducting participatory mapping workshops [...] Read more.
This study investigated the role of participatory village maps in strengthening the Musrenbang, an annual multi-stakeholder public consultation forum to discuss development issues and plans in Indonesia. We evaluated the Musrenbang in five villages in Deli Serdang District after conducting participatory mapping workshops to produce village maps to inform the Musrenbang process. Our results show that communication between Musrenbang participants improved because the maps provided a clear definition of the village administrative area, geospatial data as resources for participation, transparency, and a dynamic deliberative process. Collaboration was also evident as the maps enabled participants to exchange knowledge, experience social learning, and have greater influence on the decision-making process. Despite the benefits, some issues impeded the optimal use of the village maps to support the participatory process in the Musrenbang. The maps could not completely overcome the power disparities between Musrenbang participants. Certain actors still dominated the implementation of the Musrenbang, making the deliberative process inaccessible to and less inclusive of some local stakeholders. Several improvements are urgently needed to optimise the use of participatory village maps and enhance Musrenbang implementation. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Participation in 2021: New Forms, New Modes, New Questions?)
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