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of the University of Manchester

Public Participation GIS Research Group

Publications:

Journals:

Cavan, G. and Kingston, R. (accepted) Development of a climate change vulnerability and risk assessment tool for urban areas. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment.

Kingston, R. (2011) Tooling up for risk and vulnerability. Town and Country Planning, June, 262-266.

White, I., Kingston, R. and Barker, A. (2010) Participatory GIS for developing flood risk management policy options. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 3(4), 337–346. DOI:10.1111/j.1753-318X.2010.01083.x

Kingston, R. (2009) Conference report: Unequal Places: The 2009 UK–Ireland Planning Research Conference. Town Planning Review, 80(9), 647-654.

LeGates, R., Tate, N.J. and Kingston, R. (2009) Spatial Thinking and the Science of Spatial Planning. Editorial, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 36(5), 763 – 768.

Ballas, D., Kingston, R., Stillwell, J. & Jin, J. (2007) Building a spatial microsimulation-based planning support system for local policy making. Environment and Planning A, 39(10), 2482 - 2499.

Kingston, R. (2007) Public participation in local policy decision-making: the role of web-based mapping. The Cartographic Journal, 44(2), 138-144.

Evans, A., Kingston, R. and Carver, S. (2004) Democratic input into the nuclear waste disposal problem: the influence of geographical data on decision making examined through a web-based GIS. Journal of Geographical Systems, 6(2), 117-132.

Carver, S., Evans, A., Kingston, R. (2004) Developing and testing a web-based GIS for teaching the principles of spatial decision-making. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28(3), 425 - 438.

Carver, S., Evans, A., Kingston, R. and Turton, I. (2001) Public participation, GIS and cyberdemocracy: evaluating on-line spatial decision support systems. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 28(6), 907-921.

Kingston, R., Carver, S., Evans, A. and Turton, I. (2000) Web-Based Public Participation Geographical Information Systems: An Aid To Local Environmental Decision-Making. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 24(2), 109-125.

Carver, S., Evans, A., Kingston, R. and Turton, I. (2000) Accessing Geographical Information Systems over the World Wide Web: Improving public participation in environmental decision-making. Information, Infrastructure and Policy, 6(3), 157-170.

Kingston, R., Carver, S., Evans, A. and Turton, I. (2000) Net Gains. The Surveyor. 27th April, 187(5578).

Book chapters:

Kingston, R (2011) On-line Public Participation GIS for Spatial Planning. In Nyerges, T., Couclelis, H. and McMaster, R. The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society. London, SAGE Publications, pp.361-380

Kingston, R. (2010) Participatory Planning. In Warf, B. (ed) Encyclopedia of Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Viitanen, J. and Kingston, R. (2009) The Role of Public Participation GIS in Local Service Delivery. In Reddick, C. (ed) Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 611-630.

Ballas, D., Kingston , R, Stillwell, J. and Birkin, B. (2004) Simulating the City. In Unsworth, R. and Stillwell, J. (eds) Twenty-first Century Leeds: geographies of a regional city. Leeds University Press.

Ballas, D, Kingston R and Stillwell, J (2004), Using a spatial microsimulation decision support system for policy scenario analysis, in J. van Leeuwen and H. Timmermans (eds.), Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 177-192.

Kingston, R., Evans, A., and Carver, S. (2002) Public participation via on-line democracy. In Geertman, S. and Stillwell, J. (eds) Planning Support Systems in Practice. Springer-Valer.

Kingston, R. (2002) Web Based PPGIS in the UK. In W. Craig (ed.) Community Participation and Geographic Information Science. London: Taylor and Francis.

Other:

LeGates, R. and Kingston, R. (2008) Improving GIScience in UK Spatial Planning Education. A Spatial Literacy in Teaching (SPLINT) White Paper, August. Available on-line. Accessed on 20th May 2009.