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Towards Effective Participation: A Stakeholder-Centered Evaluation for Aggregating Spatially Explicit Data

Sebastian Leahy (sebastian@backtalk.com) and Eduardo Dias
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Sebastian Leahy: Amsterdam University College, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eduardo Dias: School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-22

Abstract: As participatory mapping becomes more ingrained into participatory practices, it is vital to understand what makes a method effective. Through the employment of a participatory mapping experiment within an ongoing urban greening initiative, this research aims at validating two established aggregation methods of spatially explicit data points in participatory mapping. Utilizing a paper mapping activity with community residents, the collected spatial data points were analyzed using both democratic and weighted aggregation. Subsequently, a follow-up study was employed to validate the perceived feeling of ownership among both of the methods in terms of the stakeholders’ sense of community representation within the visual outputs. This research introduces a novel approach to the evaluation of participatory mapping practices. A key finding includes the development of a comprehensive methodological model that explores various aspects of a participatory process. Additionally, a new criterion was presented, stakeholder representation, in which to evaluate effectiveness. The difference between the methods was not found to be significant, as the mapping results revealed a consistent overlap in the areas of interest across the stakeholder groups, suggesting a general public consensus on the local development priorities. These insights hold considerable value for local decisions makers, as agreement areas provide a stable foundation for planning. Lastly, this research contributes to the ongoing efforts to evaluate and standardize participatory mapping methods, while also addressing the potential of varied aggregation methods to enhance effectiveness.

Keywords: participatory mapping (PM); participatory planning (PP); effective participation; representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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