part Part I Introduction -- chapter 1 Community participation and geographic information systems / chapter 2 Surveying the extent of PPGIS practice in the United States / chapter 3 Models for making GIS available to community organizations: dimensions of difference and appropriateness / part Part II PPGIS case studies -- chapter 4 A voice that could not be ignored: community GIS and gentrification battles in San Francisco / chapter 5 Mapping Philadelphia's neighbourhoods / chapter 6 The impacts of GIS use for neighbourhood revitalization in Minneapolis / chapter 7 The Atlanta Project: reflections on PPGIS practice / chapter 8 Web-based PPGIS in the United Kingdom / chapter 9 GIS-enhanced land-use planning / chapter 10 Portland Metro's dream for public involvement / chapter 11 A community-based and collaborative GIS joint venture in rural Australia / chapter 12 Geographic information systems in the environmental movement / chapter 13 There must be a catch: participatory GIS in a Newfoundland fishing community / chapter 14 Environmental NGOs and community access to technology as a force for change / chapter 15 Mexican and Canadian case studies of community-based spatial information management for biodiversity conservation / chapter 16 Promoting local community participation in forest management through a PPGIS application in Southern Ghana / chapter 17 GIS for community forestry user groups in Nepal: putting people before the technology / chapter 18 Implementing a community-integrated GIS: perspectives from South African fieldwork / chapter 19 Information technologies, PPGIS, and advocacy: globalization of resistance to industrial shrimp farming / chapter 20 Ensuring access to GIS for marginal societies / chapter 21 The Cherokee Nation and tribal uses of GIS / part Part III PPGIS futures -- chapter 22 Mutualism in strengthening GIS technologies and democratic principles: perspectives from a GIS software vendor / chapter 23 Spatial multimedia representations to support community participation / chapter 24 GIS and the artist: shaping the image of a neighbourhood through participatory environmental design KHEIR AL-KODMANY / chapter 25 A praxis of public participation GIS and visualization / chapter 26 A model for evaluating public participation GIS / chapter 27 Public participation, technological discourses and the scale of GIS / chapter 28 Conclusion