Chapter 3 Analysis by Author Affiliation

Bar charts and tables to examine how contribution to conferences have changed over time.

3.1 Total Conference Contributions

General observations:

  • Academic contributors dominate, followed by Government (but as shown in previous chapter, Government contributions have decreased recently, replaced by NGOs)
Affiliation count prop
Academic 511 0.552
Business 39 0.042
Government 248 0.268
NGO 111 0.120
Private 17 0.018

3.2 Landscape Type

Stacked bar plots of contributions (by types and author affiliation)

3.2.1 Using all landscape types

General observations:

  • Business not good at reporting landscape type!
  • Private have greatest proportions of Seascape and Other
Affiliation Upland rural Lowland rural Urban Riverscape Seascape Undefined LspType Other sum Upland rural_prop Lowland rural_prop Urban_prop Riverscape_prop Seascape_prop Undefined LspType_prop Other_prop sum_prop
Academic 58 242 58 70 36 84 14 562 0.1032028 0.4306050 0.1032028 0.1245552 0.0640569 0.1494662 0.0249110 1
Business 5 8 5 4 6 12 1 41 0.1219512 0.1951220 0.1219512 0.0975610 0.1463415 0.2926829 0.0243902 1
Government 58 124 13 16 15 44 13 283 0.2049470 0.4381625 0.0459364 0.0565371 0.0530035 0.1554770 0.0459364 1
NGO 13 47 14 18 13 10 1 116 0.1120690 0.4051724 0.1206897 0.1551724 0.1120690 0.0862069 0.0086207 1
Private 1 8 2 1 4 3 1 20 0.0500000 0.4000000 0.1000000 0.0500000 0.2000000 0.1500000 0.0500000 1

3.5 Spatial Extent

General observations:

  • Academic seem to be majority by absolute number for all extents
  • Business have largest proportion of Global and National studies, with smallest proprtion of Local studies
  • Private has larest proportion of Local and Mini studies (cost-related and given no RS and few GIS studies?)
  • Academic: decreasing proportion Local -> Regional -> National -> Global
  • Government: greater proportion of National than Regional