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Public Perception of Urban Air Quality Using Volunteered Geographic Information Services
Urban Planning, 2020 Investigating perceived air quality (AQ) in urban areas is a rather new topic of interest. Papers presenting results from studies on perception of AQ have thus far focused on the individual characteristics leading to a certain AQ perception or have ...
Sonja Grossberndt +6 more
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Numerisation D'un Siecle de Paysage Ferroviaire Français : recul du rail, conséquences territoriales et coût environnemental [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The reconstruction of geographical data over a century, allows to figuring out the evolution of the French railway landscape, and how it has been impacted by major events (eg.: WWII), or longer time span processes : industry outsourcing, metropolization, public transport policies or absence of them.
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A Holistic View on Volunteered Geographic Information
Proceedings of the ICA, 2023 Abstract. With the rise of web and online mapping technologies since the early 2000s, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a significant resource for generating and disseminating diverse geographic data. VGI can be characterized in multiple ways, depending on factors such as data nature, contribution purpose, collection methods, and ...
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No evidence of a rural‐urban divide in prioritizing agricultural policy goals
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Rural‐urban divides have been found in various policy fields, but it remains unclear if they exist in agricultural policy. We analyzed the policy preferences of 1542 Swiss respondents, ranging from very rural to very urban. Respondents prioritized different pairs of conflicting goals, that is, two economic goals versus four conflicting agri ...
Nadja El Benni +4 more
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Designing a Volunteered Geographic Information System for Road Data Validation
Proceedings, 2019 The objective of this work is to build a Volunteered Geographic Information System (VGIS) using a methodological design process. The VGIS design focuses on coordinating its three main components—project (organization), participants (community), and
José Pablo Gómez-Barrón +2 more
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A Review of Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management
Geography Compass, 2015 AbstractThe immediacy of locational information requirements and importance of data currency for natural disaster events highlights the value of volunteered geographic information (VGI) in all stages of disaster management, including prevention, preparation, response, and recovery.
Billy Tusker Haworth +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract In this study, we define, categorize, and systematically describe best practices and barriers to implementing preference elicitation lab‐in‐the‐field experiments with farmers based on qualitative, in‐depth interviews with researchers from the Research Network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP).
Marieke Cornelia Baaken +16 more
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Analysing the Sustainability of Urban Development: A review on the Potential Use of Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015 The challenges of how to ensure sustainable urban development are currently one of the important agenda among governments around the world. The stakeholders require the latest and high volume of geographic information for the decision making process to ...
N. Ibrahim +3 more
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Water pricing and markets: Principles, practices and proposals
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract The allocation of water across space and time is a key challenge of water governance, with demand and supply often not well matched over time and place. Best practice water pricing and markets may promote water conservation, yet their application is limited.
Sarah Ann Wheeler +2 more
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Towards Enhancing Integrated Pest Management Based on Volunteered Geographic Information
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 Integrated pest management (IPM) involves integrating multiple pest control methods based on site information obtained through inspection, monitoring, and reports. IPM has been deployed to achieve the judicious use of pesticides and has become one of the
Yingwei Yan +2 more
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