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.

Autorentext

Dr. Jirí Pánek is associate professor in regional and social development at the Department of Development and Environmental Studies at Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic with background in geography, GIScience and Development Studies. His main research lies in using GIS in community participation. He is former Fulbright-Masaryk scholar at Centre for Geospatial Analyses at North Carolina State University (2021-2022), and Ruth Crawford Mitchell Fellow at Urban Studies program of University of Pittsburgh (2017).

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction (Jirí Pánek).- Chapter 2. Geoparticipation and Democratic Theory (Jakub Bakule).- Chapter 3. Geospatial Technologies For Geoparticipation (Jaroslav Burian, Jirí Pánek and Vít Pászto).- Chapter 4. Open Data And Its Role In Geoparticipation (Jaroslav Burian and Barbora Kocvarová).- Chapter 5. Improving Local Democracy Works: Determinants of Participatory Local Governments (Jakub Lysek).- Chapter 6. Participatory Budgeting in the Czech Republic (Jirí Chovanecek).- Chapter 7. GeoParticipatory tools in action: Case study Jeseník, Czech Republic (David Zichovský, Jirí Pánek, Jirí Chovanecek).- Chapter 8. The Application Of City-Building Games In Spatial Planning (Jan PINOS, Jaroslav Burian).