Patterns in environmental priorities revealed through government open data portals

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dc.contributor.authorLim, Theodore C.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-16T18:13:06Zen
dc.date.available2021-12-16T18:13:06Zen
dc.date.issued2021-11-01en
dc.date.updated2021-12-16T18:13:04Zen
dc.description.abstractThe ways in which environmental priorities are framed are varied and influenced by political forces. One technological advance–the proliferation of government open data portals (ODPs)–has the potential to improve governance through facilitating access to data. Yet it is also known that the data hosted on ODPs may simply reflect the goals and interests of multiple levels of political power. In this article, I use traditional statistical correlation and regression techniques along with newer natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to analyze the corpus of datasets hosted on government ODPs (total: 49,066) to extract patterns that relate scales of governance and political liberalism/conservatism to the priorities and meaning attached to environmental issues. I find that state-level and municipal-level ODPs host different categories of environmental datasets, with municipal-level ODPs generally hosting more datasets pertaining to services and amenities and state-level ODPs hosting more datasets pertaining to resource protection and extraction. Stronger trends were observed for the influences of political conservatism/liberalism among state-level ODPs than for municipal-level ODPs.en
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dc.format.extent13 page(s)en
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dc.identifierARTN 101678 (Article number)en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101678en
dc.identifier.issn0736-5853en
dc.identifier.orcidLim, Theodore [0000-0002-7896-4964]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/107074en
dc.identifier.volume64en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
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dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectTechnologyen
dc.subjectInformation Science & Library Scienceen
dc.subjectOpen dataen
dc.subjectOpen governmenten
dc.subjectEnvironmental policyen
dc.subjectLocal and state governmenten
dc.subjectDATA POLICYen
dc.subjectADOPTIONen
dc.subjectPOLITICSen
dc.subjectCITIESen
dc.subjectTIMEen
dc.subjectInformation Systemsen
dc.subject0806 Information Systemsen
dc.subject0899 Other Information and Computing Sciencesen
dc.titlePatterns in environmental priorities revealed through government open data portalsen
dc.title.serialTelematics and Informaticsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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