Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

What is the current state of geoparticipation in Czech municipalities?

What is the current state of geoparticipation in Czech municipalities? AbstractThe active involvement of citizens in decision-making processes via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular research field among geographers, GIScientists, environmental psychologists, political scientists and many others. This paper presents the idea of the Index of geoparticipation – an indicator-based index divided into three dimensions (communication, participation, transparency) that helps to evaluate the state of geoparticipation among Czech municipalities. It describes the current state of geoparticipation at the municipality level in Czechia. It aims to fill the research gap in finding which components of geoparticipation at the municipality level are being used, and how their use is affected by the size of municipalities and their membership of Local Agenda 21 networks. The paper builds upon an extensive dataset collected by the authors from all Czech municipalities (n=6 258) and presents various “shades” of geoparticipation in Czechia.Highlights for public administration, management and planning:• The highest average values of the Index of geoparticipation were obtained from the regions’ capital cities, followed by statutory cities, municipalities with extended powers, municipalities which are members of the Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic (HCCZ) network and cities.• HCCZ member municipalities use geoparticipatory tools significantly more than the rest of the Czech municipalities• The communication dimension is the most widely implemented pillar of the Index of geoparticipation• There is no significant relationship between social exclusion and geoparticipation at the nationwide level http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png GeoScape de Gruyter

What is the current state of geoparticipation in Czech municipalities?

Download PDF
14 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/de-gruyter/what-is-the-current-state-of-geoparticipation-in-czech-municipalities-Kvny8KHytR

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2021 Jiří Pánek et al., published by Sciendo
eISSN
1802-1115
DOI
10.2478/geosc-2021-0008
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

AbstractThe active involvement of citizens in decision-making processes via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular research field among geographers, GIScientists, environmental psychologists, political scientists and many others. This paper presents the idea of the Index of geoparticipation – an indicator-based index divided into three dimensions (communication, participation, transparency) that helps to evaluate the state of geoparticipation among Czech municipalities. It describes the current state of geoparticipation at the municipality level in Czechia. It aims to fill the research gap in finding which components of geoparticipation at the municipality level are being used, and how their use is affected by the size of municipalities and their membership of Local Agenda 21 networks. The paper builds upon an extensive dataset collected by the authors from all Czech municipalities (n=6 258) and presents various “shades” of geoparticipation in Czechia.Highlights for public administration, management and planning:• The highest average values of the Index of geoparticipation were obtained from the regions’ capital cities, followed by statutory cities, municipalities with extended powers, municipalities which are members of the Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic (HCCZ) network and cities.• HCCZ member municipalities use geoparticipatory tools significantly more than the rest of the Czech municipalities• The communication dimension is the most widely implemented pillar of the Index of geoparticipation• There is no significant relationship between social exclusion and geoparticipation at the nationwide level

Journal

GeoScape – de Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2021

Keywords: Geoparticipation; Local governance; Democratic innovations

There are no references for this article.