Mapping spatial attributes in survey research for natural resource management: Methods and applications
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- 31 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Society & Natural Resources
- Vol. 18 (1), 17-39
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920590881853
Abstract
Traditional survey research measures attributes such as opinions, attitudes, beliefs, values, norms, and preferences. Few public surveys have attempted to map perceived spatial attributes of places and landscapes, a subject of increasing importance to environmental and natural resource management. For the past 5 years, this researcher has included spatial measures of landscape values and attributes in five separate surveys of the general public in Alaska (1998-2003). This article reviews the spatial data collection rationale behind these studies, design concepts, methods, and implementation issues when administering a general public survey that includes a spatial mapping component. A research framework for using landscape values and spatial measures in GIS planning applications is presented, including suitability analysis, gap analysis, and hot-spot identification. Spatial measure ambiguity and survey response rates will require future research attention. The mapping of psychometric attributes of place through survey research remains a field open to active inquiry and experimentation.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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