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Supporting sustainability
through geographic
information and public
participation – civic science
and stakeholder involvement
in the Eco-Gozo project
Dr Maria Attard
Dr Mordechai Haklay
Dr Claire Ellul
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Authors
• Dr Maria Attard, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and Lecturer in Geography, University of Malta
• Dr Muki Haklay, Director of the Chorley Institute, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London
• Dr Claire Ellul, Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London
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Context
• In 2009 Government of Malta launched the
initiative of Eco-Gozo.
• A number of actions related to Economy,
Environment, Society and Identity were
identified. In each priority area a focus was
made on particularly pressing sectors and
a list of specific actions identified for
implementation.
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Economy Environment Society Identity &
Culture
Tourism Agriculture Education Culture & Arts
Transport Natural Heritage Health Cultural
Heritage
Air Quality Sport Voluntary
Sector
Energy Sectorial
Issues
Water
Waste
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Objectives of the Research
• Establish the important role and functions of civic society in the planning and development of projects like Eco-Gozo.
• Identify the importance of geographic data and the need for participatory geographic information systems (PGIS) to support sustainability.
• Propose a framework of how PGIS could be developed to support the Eco-Gozo project.
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Sustainable Planning
• Achieved through holistic approaches and community involvement.
• A holistic approach embraces the natural and the built environment - the landscape. However landscape can be easy to understand but difficult to define.
• Stakeholder participation is not only important in satisfying the requirements of Agenda 21 but also of ensuring cooperation in the implementation.
• Participation is accepted as a vehicle for planners to gain access to local knowledge complementing scientific knowledge.
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Sustainable Planning
• Knowledge of the landscape comes traditionally from scientific methods of research and mapping.
• Gozo’s landscape was assessed as part of the Landscape Assessment Study carried out by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) in 2004.
• The output of this assessment was the identification of areas of high landscape value.
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Sustainable Planning
• Planning must be collaborative and has to
facilitate effective communication between
participants so that the information has meaning
for all participants.
• The most important aspect is to bring together
information in such a way that the professional
scientific community, the lay stakeholders,
planners and policy makers can all communicate
meaningfully and contribute information during
the process of constructing a shared vision.
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Sustainable Planning
• The way the
environment is
understood scientifically
or locally has
implications on decision
making.
• Many support the use of
both local knowledge
(civic science) and
scientific knowledge.
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Geographic Information and GIS
• Tools have been developed to facilitate participation of civic society in planning their own environment.
• Traditional participatory methods do not allow for interaction, development and manipulation of geographic data.
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been developed to visually express the desired future and bring together different groups.
• The community needs to be empowered to explore scientific data in line with their own interpretation of their landscape.
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Geographic Information and PGIS
• This has been achieved
with Participatory GIS
(PGIS).
• For the first time there is
an opportunity for local
communities to put
themselves on the same
footing, in terms of
knowledge and
presentation, as planning
authorities and officials.
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Examples of citizen participation
• The European Environment Agency’s Eye on
Earth - Citizen observatory on air and bathing
water quality
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Geographic Information and PGIS
• Up to the development of Web mapping 2.0
technologies (Google Earth, Bing!) this
possibility was limited.
• With Google Earth, the prospects of participatory
GIS is within reach of many.
• Supporting this is the emergence of free and
open geographic data (OpenStreetMap Project)
where volunteers contribute data, some of which
in quite some detail.
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Creating necessary infrastructures
• Despite all efforts to develop voluntary geographic information, effective decision-making requires quality spatial data.
• Voluntary data collection should be complementary to data made available for public consumption.
• Efforts to develop national spatial data infrastructures that support and encourage public use of geographic information are slowly developing (see Ordnance Survey in the UK http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/).
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Creating necessary infrastructures
• Across Europe this movement has been mostly
driven by environment regulations at European
Union level that require member states to share
environmental and other data (INSPIRE).
• In addition, free data also creates and supports
innovative ideas and applications across
communities and provides a platform for
dialogue, thus stimulating public participation
and sustainable communities.
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NOISE MAPPING
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Applicability to Gozo
• The Eco-Gozo priority areas include spatial elements which have an impact on development. It is therefore important that any planning decision is analysed effectively.
• This exercise however need not be one carried out solely by Government, particularly if there are acceptance issues from the affected communities or NGO’s.
• Integrating information in one map and using the map as the medium of communication would allow government and public to interact and really plan change which is sustainable.
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Applicability to Gozo
• The proposed framework of public and
community data would support the Eco-Gozo
project by ensuring that the public is engaged
not only in the planned projects but are also able
to communicate with government in the
development of the projects.
• Data collected by the community for the
community could be used to design and develop
maps [of change].
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Applicability to Gozo
• This medium of communication which can be
very engaging and very effective can serve as a
support tool to achieve sustainability.
• Government and communities should come
together using such tools to ensure projects
such as Eco-Gozo, materialise not only through
government intervention but also through public
participation and acceptance.
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Conclusions• The Government’s
vision for Gozo requires public acceptance and participation.
• Public engagement is important to raise awareness of the environment, increase the ability to read and handle geographic information and ensure change is sustainable.
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Conclusions• Mapping tools exist
and examples show communities interacting with maps and drive change in their neighbourhoods.
• The provision of data and the collaboration between government and public to create new data are important elements that support participation and further enhance engagement.
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Thank You
Visit our work at:
www.um.edu.mt/isd
www.mappingforchange.org.uk