ATTENTION NATURE LOVERS
bECOME A FAN AND MAKE IMPACT
Greenmapper is a research platform of the University of Groningen where people share and map their favorite nature and landscape spots. By doing so, they contribute valuable insights into how nature and landscapes are appreciated, helping to strengthen scientific research and inform policy.
At the same time, Greenmapper connects fans of specific areas through the Greenmapper Friends platform, making it easier and more natural for people to be involved and reachable in discussions about protection, management, and future governance of these places.
Love it? Map it
Show your support by marking your favorite areas.
Let's talk nature
Share ideas and discuss with fellow nature lovers.
Fund the future
Reveal the potential support behind nature projects.
Find out .
Projects
We are currently working on different projects together with societal organizations. One major project is the Interreg project FREIIA together with island partners in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and France. Another project is the ‘Innovative financial instruments for landscape governance’ project together with the National Park of Texel and Staatsbosbeheer (a.o.).
Join our recent projects.
Polis
You can vote agree, disagree, pass/unsure on statements you view. You may also submit your own comments voluntarily. In addition to the original seed statements, others can vote on statements generated by you. In this way, later participants can indirectly interact with statements provided by earlier participants.
Click on “participate” at the bottom of this page and become a “fan”.
To start participating, you first mark on a map where you live. For privacy, you don’t mark your exact address, but approximately where you live.
You can watch the short animation video to explain how this works.
After registering, you will be redirected to an interactive polling page.
We select one winner from those who voted and send in statements. The notifications of results would be sent out via email. After your participation, you might see a real-time visual expression of opinion groups. Other than this, you will receive a report briefing from our research team. Stay in touch, and let’s move towards a more circular future!
Join as an individual
Register as a landscape friend for one or more attractive places
✓ Mark 4 attractive nature places: local, region, nation, globe
✓ Non-anonymous – email and address known to Greenmapper
✓ Others can reach you as friend of your area, but only anonymously via Greenmapper
✓ 5-8 minutes
✓ Mark up to 16 places later on
Join as an organisation
Register as a (group of) nature or landscape management organizations
✓ Mark the area(s) you own, manage or are active in as a governance organisation
✓ See how many people marked your area
✓ Reach out to this community of fans through the platform through various means (messages, open discussion, polls, funding requests)
✓ Find where your fans hold consensus opinions on a topic of your interest and where they strongly diverge via the advanced Polis statements-based discussion tool.
✓ Explore the funding that fans are – in general – willing to support your area with for biodiversity, landscape scenery, sustainable business or cultural activities
✓ Propose specific projects for them to fund
Why Register?
The idea is that you enter your favourite natural areas that you want to be a friend of. For that reason we ask you a couple of questions to create an account for you. Your emailaddress is not shown in the app, only your (screen)name.
Double Mission
We at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have a double mission with Greenmapper. First, we want to strengthen both science and policy with better data on the appreciation of nature and landscapes. For this we are building a crowd-sourced Greenmapper Attractive Nature Database. Our aim is to have 125.000 representative respondents from 50 countries marking nature places: at local, regional, national, and global levels to allow for serious analysis and policy support at all levels.
Second, we want to make it easy and normal for fans of areas to be reachable online for governance purposes. For this, we develop the Greenmapper Friends platform. We aim for 1 million people being reachable as an online friend of their favorite nature areas and landscapes, to digitally revolutionize nature and landscape governance. Help us in our mission and join in! We will do the science. And together with our partners, we will work on improving the governance of nature and landscapes. Please note: Your personal data remain private with Greenmapper.
Disclaimer & Privacy Policy
DISCLAIMER
We feel we should give a warning! Yes, Greenmapper is a user-friendly web app designed for the general public. Still, it remains scientific software, with very limited funding and a very small technical support team. When compared to a simple written survey, Greenmapper stands out as a visually appealing and interactive tool. When compared to big tech applications, you may still find it far less fluent and user-friendly. Bear with us and our small team. Our means are limited, but our efforts, and yours (!), are noble.
PRIVACY POLIS
Greenmapper Friends is an initiative of the University of Groningen.
Greenmapper Friends stores your emailaddress in the Greenmapper
Landscape Friend Registry (GLFR). No one can access this email accept
the Greenmapper organisation. You can via the GLFR be reached
anonymously by land-owners, land management, or other friends of the
area. But these third parties do not have direct access to your email.
We follow the European General Data Protection Regulation guidelines for
privacy and the storage of your personal data.
Publications
Explore Greenmapper data
We surveyed over 15.000 people in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland,
Italy, Brazil and South Korea. We share our data to support academic research and policy-making. Please get in touch with us if you would like to analyse the gathered data. If you click below, you will access the spatial data viewer, which highlights some of the main spatial features of the entire database.
