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Advancing knowledge about values and special places for land use planning
  
  



 

About the Institute
The Landscape Values and PPGIS Institute is a non-profit consortium of international researchers and planners interested in advancing knowledge about landscape values and PPGIS to improve land allocation and management. Landscape value and special place mapping is a planning technique whose principles are grounded in sustainable land use and environmental protection, meaningful public participation, and the inclusion of multiple values in land use decisionmaking. Landscape value and special place mapping is a type of public participation geographic information system or (PPGIS) used to support land use planning efforts at multiple scales ranging from local, to regional, to national scales.

Within this web site you will find numerous examples of applications, methods, and tools for mapping and analyzing landscape values, development preferences, activities, special places and other PPGIS attributes. You will also find resources to help design and implement PPGIS mapping for a variety of planning applications. The map below shows PPGIS studies completed by the Institute's collaborators. Click on a marker for more information.

Do you want information about setting up an internet-based PPGIS system?

New 20/10/11 New publications uploaded to website. Click here or see menu on left

New 12/04/10 Wyoming PPGIS study report released (click to download)

New 04/19/10 PPGIS study in Wyoming maps landscape values/development preferences

New 03/22/10 PPGIS study identifies areas for river conservation

New 03/01/10 First PPGIS website to map ecosystem values and services

New 12/29/09 PGIS study maps social landscape values in Zanzibar, Africa

New 10/04/09 New Report on Using PPGIS to Map Park Visitor Experiences and Env. Impacts

New 8/03/09 Global Climate Change Mapping Project uses PPGIS

New 7/22/09 New Google Maps prototype developed for mapping landscape values

New 6/16/09 New publication describes PPGIS method for national forest planning in the U.S.

New 4/27/09 New report describes spatial mapping of community values for tourism and conservation planning for the Murray River in Australia

New 1/30/09 New web-based PPGIS study maps visitor experiences and environmental impacts in Australia

New 6/5/08 New report explores the relationship between landscape values and climate change risks with data using PPGIS

New 4/3/08 New case study: Using PPGIS to map special places for land use planning in Kittitas County, Washington (U.S.)

  
 
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