Excited to share that our article “Elevating Local Knowledge through Participatory Modeling: Active Community Engagement in Restoration Planning in Coastal Louisiana.” Journal of Geographic Systems, 22: 241-266″ was awarded best paper for 2020 in the Journal of Geographic Systems.
Here is a nice write-up on the article:
The objective of the JGS Best Paper Award is to encourage and recognize excellent scholarship published in the journal in the preceding year. For the year 2020, two truly excellent papers stand out. They properly represent the broad scope of a journal that covers the fields of GIScience and spatial planning, as well as spatial statistics and econometrics.
In 2020 JGS published 22 papers, all undergoing a stringent peer review process. All of them are of excellent quality, making any decision about prizes a difficult one. Choosing among this pool of top research in our field was difficult. But a decision had to be made and it is our great pleasure to announce that the joint winners of the 2020 JGS Best Paper Award are the contributions by James P LeSage and by Scott A Hemmerling, Monica Barra, Harris C. Bienn, Melissa M. Baustian, Hoonshin Jung, Ehab Meselhe, Yushi Wang, and Eric White.
The paper describes a multidisciplinary team of modelers and their work with stakeholders to integrate local knowledge into their modeling practice. The result of this effort is not only better science, but greater legitimacy of the output and better chances of buy-in by the stakeholders. At a time when objective fact is relentlessly under attack for political purposes, approaches to involve multiple stakeholders as part of the scientific process are valuable for education, policy, and to increase the acceptability/acceptance of science.
From: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10109-021-00347-5
Fischer, M.M., Paez, A., Rodríguez-Pose, A. et al. 2020 JGS Best Paper Award and the Editors’ Choice Paper Volume 23(1). J Geogr Syst (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-021-00347-5
Monica Patrice Barra 