1. Texas southern University – Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs.
Mickey Leland Center for Environment Justice & Sustainability
Raiven Williams, MIS Major – Undergraduate Research Assistant/Mentee
Anthony Rodriguez, Ph.D. Mentor
Introduction
The basis of our research is to promote and
preserve sites on the campus with natural
enclaves and the natural scape of the land
using the integration of technology to
provide an innovative cohesion of
communication to existing and future
stakeholders. We pose a general effort
(goal) to generate funding to carry out the
research on the institutional platform.
Methods
• Created and analyzed QR code with
QReate
• Used iTree software for tree cover analysis.
• Selected 250 Random points coordinate
selection built into the Itree.
• Use of ARCGIS software
• Design QR site selection
• Foot traffic
• Building usage
• Campus impact
• Potential points
• Tiger walk East and West
• Corridor below JHJ Bldg
• New Science Bldg Commons
• South side Student Center
What’s Next
We expect to have high site traffic and
increased engagement from survey takers.
Having the tags / codes strategically place at the
sites for maximum visibility, our survey will have
the opportunity to reach a larger test group.
This engagement will be revisited and
introduced at a later time as a way of
monetizing opportunity to preserve the focused
sites and open the scope for more sites
throughout the campus and ultimately the
community.
Sources
Gage, M., & Vandenberg, M., (1975) Hard landscape in concrete
Halsted Press, New York
Geo Core 5.1 Map Logistics
Gen C YouTube Audience Study, March 2013, Google / IPSOSNowWhat
Scientific Names: Forestry Images. Retrieved 4/24/06
from "http://www.forestryimages.org/ (use scientific name or
common name for continuous link to item}
QR_Stuff Generator from http://www.qrstuff.com/ (use for QR generations)
Rodriguez, A. (2012) BJMLSPA Digatal Scholarship: Selected
Works.bpress.comrodriquezam
Abstract
The TSU campus with its infrastructure, 47 buildings, and over 10000 users sitting
on 150 acres provides more than academic training. The campus is also an
ecosystem comprised of a variety of fauna and flora. The campus has been assess
for its sustainability potential in relationship to power consumption but it has never
undergone a study of its overall urban canopy value and its connection to the
overall unbuilt urban ecology. According to previous work by Rodriguez (2012), the
green capital provides benefits often overlooked. In this study we embark on the
notion that knowledge of the natural value has not been widely disbursed and as
such identified means to distribute information based on existing natural clusters
and human movement.
We expect to find out that users are equally concerned with the natural and
sustainability issues within this institutional setting similar to households in a
residential setting. Furthermore we set out to provide information portals to both
share and collect data using advance technologies. After assessing the overall
metrics on the campus, key points were selected using ARCGIS to identify potential
clusters and nodes of greater natural sensitivity. We conclude that these clusters
and nodes can stimulate both flora and fauna with limited human interjection and
provide points of community connection. We concluded that technology has a place
in the sustainability conversation within a campus/nonprofit institutional sector, to
exert intellectual influence that can serve as a means towards protection of
environment and promotion of alternative ways of doing the same.
Conclusion
In conclusion to our research , we have identified areas of
interest that would be great sources for our Quick Response
placement. These QR displays will generate unsolicited
comments and campus reporting based for each geographical
location. With the use of ArcGIS and iTREE we have been able
to create environs and carry out subjective analysis within our
study area. Opportunities to bring unknown natural scapes to a
public platform have surfaced in result of our research. It is
clear that technology has a place in the sustainability
conversation within a campus/nonprofit institutional sector, to
exert intellectual influence that can serve as a means towards
protection of environment and promotion of alternative ways
of doing the same
Using technology for stakeholder involvement in
promoting urban forestry and sustainability
concerns within the institutional space:
The case of Texas Southern University
Keywords:
Big Data, GIS, Communication, Urban
Forestry, Natural Enclaves , Technology