Geoparticipatory Spatial Tools

The book explores the key factors affecting the successful  implementation of public participation spatial systems in participatory  planning as part of the urban governance system. It brings insight from  nation-wide research in the Czech Republic and the implications to other  countries in the region and beyond. The main aim of the proposed book  is to analyse the state-of-the-art of using geoparticipatory tools for  citizens’ participation in community decision-making process and to  suggest the effective implementation of the geoparticipatory tools  available in urban governance.

 This book explores the  situation in the Czech Republic as a representative of for Eastern Bloc  country, three decades after the political transition, on its way to  public participation in local and urban governance. The active  involvement of the citizens into the local and urban decision making  process via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular  research field among human geographers, behavioural geographers, GIS  scientists, environmental psychologists, policy scientists and many  others scientific areas.