Dr Robert Berry
Job Title: WISERD Researcher (Data Integration Team)
Institution: University of Glamorgan
Email: raberry@glam.ac.uk
Telephone: 01443 483377
Role: Rob is a member of the WISERD Data Integration Team
Biography
Research Interests
Rob maintains an ongoing interest in the use of Web-GIS for enhancing public participation in rural and urban planning, with a particular emphasis on evaluating the potential of GIS-based digital landscape visualisation techniques for promoting citizen involvement in wind farm planning in the UK. Previous related research has included investigating the performance of high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) for visibility analysis. Rob has also produced a review of the published research literature in the field of GIS for hazard and disaster management.
Current Research
Rob is currently working on the development of an online GIS-based searchable meta-database of primary and secondary socio-economic data for Wales. This work brings together several
distinct but related strands of research including Web-GIS, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) spatial and non-spatial meta-data development and management, quantitative and qualitative GIS and geo-visualisation.
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Recent Publications
Journals
Fry R, Berry R, Higgs G, Orford S, Jones S, 2012, ‘The WISERD Geoportal: A tool for the discovery, analysis and visualisation of socio-economic (meta-) data for Wales’ Transactions in GIS 16(2) pp 105-124 (Available here)
Berry R, Higgs G, 2012, ‘Gauging levels of public acceptance to the use of visualisation tools in promoting public participation; a case study of wind farm planning in South Wales, UK’ Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 55(2) pp 229-551 (Available here)
Berry R, Higgs G, Fry R, Langford M, 2011, ‘Web-based GIS approaches to enhance public participation in wind farm planning’ Transactions in GIS 15(2) pp 147-172 (Available here)
Berry R, Fry R, Higgs G, Orford S, 2010, ‘Building a geo-portal for enhancing collaborative socio-economic research in Wales using open source technology’ The Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 2(1) pp 77-92 (Available here)
Higgs G, Berry R, Kidner D, Langford M, 2008, ‘Using IT approaches to promote public participation in renewable energy planning: Prospects and challenges’ Land Use Policy 25 (4) pp 596-607 (Available here)
Reports
Berry R, Higgs G, 2010, ‘An evaluation of online GIS-based landscape and visual impact assessment tools and their potential for enhancing public participation: the example of wind farm planning in Wales’ WISERD/RSS/001 (Available here)
