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Harry Beck: The Paris Connection. FixMyStreet. London 21. Portal | Home. About Rescue Geography. Essentially the inspiration for calling what we do 'Rescue Geography' was the practice of rescue archaeology, where archaeological traces which are threatened by new building are recorded before development. We started by trying to 'rescue' local people's understandings of an area before redevelopment. Subsequently we became interested in how these techniques might be more widely applied to help investigate people's relationship with their local environment One of the techniques we refined is the use of walking interviews, where you actually get people to give you a guided tour of the area, rather than just sitting in a room somewhere asking people what they like about the area.

The use GPS (‘sat nav’) technologies during the interviews allows us to record the extent to which comments about particular spaces/buildings are made in/adjacent to them. We believe this technique produces rich insights into how people value particular places. Some academic context... What was Rescue Geography? Muki Haklay's Home Page. I am a Professor of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London.

I am also the Director of the UCL Extreme Citizen Science group, which is dedicate to allow any community, regardless of their literacy, to use scientific methods and tools to collect, analyse, interpret and use information about their area and activities. Research My research interests include Public access and use of Environmental Information; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Usability Engineering aspects of GIS; and Societal aspects of GIS use – in particular, participatory mapping and Citizen Science.

Since 2001, I have secured over £7.8 million in research funding, from research councils, the public, private and third sectors. I received funding for a range of projects, including the following: More details about my experience and various projects on which I have worked on in the past 20 years can be found on my page at Academia.edu. Françoise ORBAN-FERAUGE. Responsabilités Département de Géographie (SGOG) Professeur émérite Bureau : Bâtiment Bureaux Géographie & Géologie - Porte Fax : +32(0)81/72.44.71 Emérite/Honoraire Réseau des Emérites et Honoraires de Namur (REHNam) Prix 1er award reçu lors de la 9e conférence de GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure) « A tool for reducing poverty », Santiago de Chile, November 2006, pour la présentation de nos recherches en collaboration avec USLS, Bacolod, Philippines (projets CUD et UE) Domaines d'expertises Système d'Information Géographique et Aménagement du territoireCartographie participativeAnalyse des paysagesProblématiques de coopération Diplômes Docteur (avec thèse)