Published In

Environmental Management

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2017

Subjects

Geographic information systems, Natural resources -- Planning -- Washington (State), Landscape assessment -- Washington (State), Natural resources -- Planning -- Citizen participation

Abstract

Landscape values mapping has been widely employed as a form of public participation GIS (PPGIS) in natural resource planning and decision-making to capture the complex array of values, uses, and interactions between people and landscapes. A landscape values typology has been commonly employed in the mapping of social and environmental values in a variety of management settings and scales. We explore how people attribute meanings and assign values to special places on the Olympic Peninsula (Washington, USA) using both a landscape values typology and qualitative responses about residents’ placerelationships. Using geographically referenced social values data collected in community meetings (n = 169), we identify high-frequency landscape values and examine how well the landscape values are reflected in open-ended descriptions of place-relations. We also explore the various interpretations of 14 landscape values used in the study. In particular, we investigate any overlapping meanings or blurriness among landscape values and reveal potentially emergent landscape values from the qualitative data. The results provide insights on the use of landscape values mapping typologies for practitioners and researchers engaged in the mapping of social values for PPGIS.

Description

This work was authored as part of the Contributor's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.

Orignally appeared in Environmental Management, published by Springer International Publishing AG. May be found at https://link.springer.com/journal/267.

DOI

10.1007/s00267-017-0900-x

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20749

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