GIS Technology in Natural Resource Management
Process as a Tool of Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally L Duncan (corresponding author), Denise Lach (Oregon State University), Denise H Lach (Oregon State University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-215 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/3571-88w4-77h2-3617 |
| OpenAlex | W2144561637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 40 |
Natural resource management in the United States has experienced dramatic change since landmark legislation in the 1960s and 1970s ultimately brought about high-visibility policy decisions on the public lands of the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The socio-political trajectory of that change has moved from institutionally imposed, agency-based decisions toward greater public involvement, increasingly calling upon new technologies to analyse data and communicate scientific findings. An investigation of the use of GIS technology in public involvement in the Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study in western Oregon finds that use of this technology plays a potentially transformative role that can encourage further movement along this social change–based trajectory but can also constrain it. Use of the technology can constrain change by increasing awareness of uncertainty and by supporting the development of privileged knowledge as held by GIS map-makers, typically scientists. It can encourage change by supporting broader kinds of inquiry and data input, reducing the effects of epistemological differences between scientists and non-scientists, and enhancing the story-making capacity and imagination of all stakeholders. In these respects, the use of GIS technology carries some potential to shift power relationships among scientists and non-scientists participating in the creation of new knowledge. Lasting change along these lines takes time, requiring the building of mutual trust and suggesting that the process of using GIS to analyse and describe landscapes can itself become a tool of change
Agency (philosophy · Environmental resource management · Knowledge management · Legislation · Natural resource · Natural resource management · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Law · Rangeland and Wildlife Management · Species Distribution and Climate Change
Entering the Century of the Environment
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
The Distribution and Resolution of the Ambiguities of Technology, or Why Bobby Can't Spray
Information Equity, Public Understanding of Science, and the Biotechnology Debate
How science makes environmental controversies worse
The complexities of citizen participation through collaborative governance
The Role of Users in the Social Shaping of Environmental Technologies
Foundations of Cross-Boundary Cooperation
"Toward a More "Reflexive Environmentalism
Barriers to Effective Natural Resource Planning in a "Messy" World
Gis and Spatial Knowledge Production for Neighborhood Revitalization
The World Demographic Transition
GIS-Supported Collaborative Decision Making
Contemporary sociological theory
Signifying Acts
Integrating Models of Diffusion of Innovations
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |