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The ideas in the book revolve around three cross-cutting themes – planning, participation, and technologies. What follows is a synthesis of lessons learned from the literature (Chaps. 2 and 3), the survey of the state of the practice (Chap. 4), and the individual case studies (Chaps. 5, 6, and 7) and an assessment of their relative merits (Chap. 8). In this chapter, I propose that GIS facilitates individual and community capacity building. Yet, the advantages that GIS offer are only maximized when the tools are embedded and integrated into a participatory process.
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Ramasubramanian, L. (2010). PPGIS as Critical Reflective Practice. In: Geographic Information Science and Public Participation. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75401-5_9
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