GIS Analysis for Assessing Cultural Landscape Values

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 1057

Special Issue Editors


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Guest Editor
Department of Geography, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
Interests: GIScience; landscape ontology and semantics; geomorphometry; cartographic generalization; PGIS; spatiotemporal analysis

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Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Interests: GIS; smart city; spatial humanity; ontology; spatiotemporal analysis

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Dear Colleagues,

The cultural elements of the landscape encompass both the tangible physical and intangible shared experiences from which arise the personalized and collective sense of place and belonging. The study of cultural landscapes is quite complex and must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, but a few fundamental aspects of the perception and valuation of cultural landscapes deserve special attention. The theoretical framing of cultural landscapes through the lens of placemaking and historization of human activities is one such critical dimension. With the widespread use of social media, grassroots mapping, and democratization of access to mapping technologies and geospatial data for over a decade, there now exist rich geospatial information repositories about cultural landscapes and human activities.

This special issue was onceived to enhance the scientific understanding of and to showcase the benefits of digital mapping and spatial and spatiotemporal analyses with geographic information systems (GIS) for the creative documentation, theoretical characterization, and systematic empirical assessment of the variety of ways and the degrees to which people value and engage with various elements of cultural landscapes.

Original theoretical and applied research papers that rely on GIS based mapping and spatial and spatiotemporal analyses for the following (but not limited to) topics are invited for this special issue:

  1. Participatory mapping /PGIS/PPGIS, VGI, crowdsourcing and citizen science methodologies and practice.
  2. Digital geo-humanities projects (e.g., historical and archaeological geovisualization and documentation of sites and places).
  3. Place based sentiment analysis of social media posts for understanding assessing cultural landscapes.
  4. Spatial linguistics for cultural landscape analysis.
  5. Cultural and cognitive aspects of the perception and valuation of cultural landscapes.
  6. Spatiotemporal narratives for exploring the relationships between human activities and cultural landscapes, especially to highlight and address one or more aspects of inequity.
  7. Spatial decision making and geodesign for cultural landscape characterization and preservation.
  8. Sustainable natural resource management and conservation, ecosystem valuation, and territorial land resource mapping, especially for indigenous communities.
  9. Historical/current/future impacts of natural and human-induced hazards on cultural landscapes.
  10. Impacts of cultural landscapes on people’s health and well-being.

Prof. Dr. Gaurav Sinha
Prof. Dr. Chen-Chieh Feng
Guest Editors

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