This thesis explores the design of a stakeholder-driven collaborative spatial
decision support system (CSDSS) to facilitate relative and absolute valuation of the
worth of relatively large areas of land for activities traditionally difficult to quantify in
monetary terms. A possible solution is offered by taking advantage of the development
of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) towards Spatial Decision Support Systems
(SDSS), and subsequently to Collaborative Spatial Decision Support Systems (CSDSS).
It reports on the development of a methodology to aid in the valuing of land use
activities difficult to quantify. The thesis explores an alternative to planner-driven land
valuation, placing the valuation responsibility instead on stakeholders.
Three experiments are carried out. The first employs tourism experts as subjects.
They conduct a gestalt based land valuation on a topographic map of the area
surrounding Penticton, British Columbia. A second experiment examines the same area,
but with a larger sample of subjects. The final experiment explores system
developments with stakeholders from Galiano Island, BC.
The thesis justifies and explains its use of a gestalt methodology. It introduces
different types of decision support information products that can be derived to facilitate
consensus building. It summarises experience gained when evaluating the proposed
methodological procedure using the three experiments.
It concludes that computing technology has advanced to make it reasonably
straight-forward to collect information about individual stakeholders’ land valuations,
and that the resultant information can be packaged effectively in a collaborative spatial
decision support system (CSDSS) to facilitate consensus building. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/8072 |
| Date | 05 May 2017 |
| Creators | O'Connell, Ian Joseph |
| Contributors | Keller, C. Peter |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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