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Public environmental information: understanding requirements and patterns of likely public use
Author(s) -
Haklay Mordechai
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00053
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , public information , public access , class (philosophy) , literacy , internet privacy , business , public relations , computer science , political science , sociology , economic growth , economics , social science , artificial intelligence
Public access to environmental information received much attention in the last decade. Recent developments promote access to this information through public telecommunication networks. This paper describes a Web‐based survey that explored the requirements and needs of likely users of public environmental information systems for London: educated middle‐class members of the public, with high interest in environmental issues and computer literacy. The survey demonstrated current information consumption patterns and the reasons to gather and use such information.