(Local and Urban Governance)
by Jiri Panek (Editor)
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.
