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Geography Department of Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, USA.

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Ongoing Research Activities

1.        Information Technology and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities.

2        Assessment of the Impacts of Geographic Information System Applications on Indigenous and Local Communities.

3.      Multi-criteria Evaluation and GIS Applications in Conflict Management. Collaborating with researchers at Clark Labs/Idrisi Project at   Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA.

4.       Investigation into the Causes of Tropical Deforestation and Land degradation. Ongoing collaborative research with officers at the GIS and Remote Sensing Unit of the Planning Branch, Ghana Forestry Service, Kumasi, Ghana.

5.     The Causes and Consequences of Conflict in Community Resource Management Practice

6.     Finding a Common Ground in Resource Conflicts through Community-Based GIS Applications: Currently working on this project for a grant application.

Recently Completed Research Projects.

1. Completed a Collaborative research project with Dr. Gavin Jordan at Newton Rigg College, University of Central Lancashire, at Penrith, Cumbria, in the United Kingdom. The project which was funded with a Seed Grant from National Science NCGIA/Varenius Project sought to develop a guideline for the evaluating the impact of Public Participation GIS on Marginalized Communities.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Articles Currently Under Review

1. Building Consensus for Community Development: A framework for Managing Conflicts in Public Participation GIS Applications Paper presented at 4th PPGIS Conference at Cleveland Ohio; to be presented for review and publication in URISA Journal

2. PGIS Applications and Community Development: towards Successful Collaborative Planning in an Increasingly Computerized World:  Manuscript 1130: Journal of Planning Education and Research

3. Finding a Common Ground in Land Use Conflicts through Community-Based Participatory GIS Applications: Under Consideration, PLA Notes.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Journals, Conference Publications & Chapters in Books:  

Kyem, P.A.K. 2004. Of Intractable Conflicts and Participatory GIS Applications: the search for Consensus amidst Competing Claims and Institutional Demands. ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers. pp. 94(1) 37 - 57.

Kyem, P. A. K. & Olivia Kyem. 2004. Africa’s Participation in the Information Communications Technology Revolution: an Opportunity for Economic Development or a Catalyst for Economic Deprivation? Africa in the 20th Century. Kojo Konadu-Agyeman (ed.) (Forth Coming)

Kyem, P.A.K. 2002  Examining the Community Empowerment Agenda in Public Participation GIS Applications. Proceedings: July 21-23, First Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) Conference held in New Brunswick, NJ. http://www.urisa.org/PPGIS/papers/PKyem.pdf (Date assessed August 2002)

Kyem, P.A.K. 2002.  “Using GIS to Support Multi-Objective Decision Making in Forest Management. An Experience from Ghana, West Africa” in Multiobjective Forest Planning. Klaus von Gadow (ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Kyem, P.A.K  (2002) Promoting local community participation in forest management through a PPGIS application in Southern Ghana. In Community Participation and Geographic Information Will Craig, Trevor Harris and Dan Weiner (eds.) Taylor and Francis. p. 218 - 231

Kyem, P.A.K., (2001) Embedding GIS Applications into Resource Management and Planning Activities of Local Communities: A Desirable Innovation or a Destabilizing Enterprise? Journal of Planning Education , 20 (1) 176-186.

Kyem, P.A.K. (2000) A Choice Heuristic Algorithm for Managing Land Resource Allocation Problems Involving Multiple Parties and Conflicting Interests. Transactions in GIS 5 (2) 113-132.

Kyem, P. A. K., (1999) Examining the Discourse About the Transfer of GIS Technology to Traditionally Non-Western Societies. Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 17. No 1, pages 69-73.

Kyem, P. A. K., (1999) Diagnosing User's Perception of Change in the Transfer and Adoption of Geographic Information System's Technology. Applied Geographic Studies, Vol.3 (2), p. 1-16.

Eastman J. R., Weigin Jin., Peter A. K. Kyem and James Toledano (1995). Raster Procedures for Multi-Criteria and Multi-Objective Decisions, in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing vol. 61, No.5, p. 539-547.

Eastman J. R., P.A.K. Kyem., J. Toledano and W. Jin. (1993). GIS and Decision Making, Geneva, United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

Technical Reports and Manuscripts

Kyem P.A.K (2000) Report on Varenius-National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis NCGIA) PPGIS Seed Grant Project, Submitted March 2000.

Kyem, P. A. K. (1999) Promoting Local Community Participation in Forest management through the Applications of Geographic Information System: a PPGIS experience from Southern Ghana. Report of a Specialist Meeting, Varenius National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis’s Project to advance Geographic Information Science, Santa Barbara, Oct. 14-17, 1998.

Kyem., Peter A. K., (1997) A GIS-based strategy for Improving Local Community Participation in and Planning: The case of Institution building for Collaborative Forest Management in Southern Ghana. Ph.D. Thesis, Graduate School of Geography, Clark Univ., Worcester, MA.

Kyem, P. A. K. (1997) A GIS-based strategy for Improving Local Community Participation in Resource Management, Allocation and Planning: The case of Institution building for Collaborative Forest Management in Southern Ghana. Technical Report of Study Presented to the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.