The Diversity of Participants in Environmental Citizen Science
"Reported benefits of environmental citizen science include the collection of large volumes of data, knowledge and skills gained by participants, local action, and policy influence. However, it is unclear how …
Inclusiveness and Diversity in Citizen Science
"An ‘inclusive citizen science’ practice encourages engagement from all members of society, whatever their social status, sociocultural origin, gender, religious affiliation, literacy level, or age. In this chapter we will …
Citizen-Based Air Quality Monitoring: The Impact on Individual Citizen Scientists …
Air pollution is a serious problem that is causing increasing concern among European citizens. It is responsible for more than 400,000 premature deaths in Europe each year and considerably damages …
Roadmap for the uptake of the Citizen Observatories' knowledge base
WeObserve brought together several Citizen Observatory projects to share and consolidate knowledge and identify best practices. Many of the insights gained have been synthesised into this detailed research and innovation roadmap …
Cities at night
The Didactic Unit that we present in these pages is a proposal to work on the classroom with third and fourth year students secondary, the location of sources of the …
X-Polli:Nation IT
X-Polli:Nation is a Citizen Science project on pollinating insects, developed by OPAL (led by Imperial College, London), in collaboration with several UK partners and the Maremma Natural History Museum in Italy. …
Citizen Science Network Austria Arbeitsgruppe für Offene Biodiversitätsdatenbanken in Citizen …
Im Rahmen des Citizen Science Network Austria (https://www.citizen-science.at/netzwerk) wurde im Februar 2018 die Arbeitsgruppe Offene Biodiversitätsdatenbanken in Citizen Science-Projekten ins Leben gerufen. Die Ziele dieser AG sind (I) die Formulierung …
Citizen Science für alle. Eine Handreichung für Citizen Science Beteiligte
This handbook describes above all how Citizen Science can be practised in Germany (Part 1: Citizen Science practice) and what this participatory research approach looks like in different areas - …
Handbook for Citizen Science Quality Assurance and Documentation
This Handbook for Citizen Science Quality Assurance and Documentation is for organizations that are starting or growing a citizen science project, and where transparency in the scientific methods for collecting …
Vigilantes del aire
The Didactic Unit that we present to you is a proposal for work in the classroom, from Infant to Secondary, air pollution to through the citizen science project https://vigilantesdelaire.ibercivis.es.
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Understanding the citizen science landscape for environmental policy: an assessment …
Citizen science is increasingly upheld with the potential to underpin all aspects of the environmental policy process. However, to date, contributions of citizen science to environmental decision-making remain sparse and …
Citizen science for environmental policy. Development of an EU-wide inventory …
In January 2018 the European Commission launched a study to examine the influence of citizen science on environmental policies and sustainable development. The study was carried out by the French …
Report of Observatory of citizen science in Spain 2016
This document presents a report on activities to promote and analyse citizen science in Spain during 2016, with the aim of increasing knowledge and vision of citizen science, based on …
Multiple Scales, Multiple Approaches - Toward Meaningful Engagement in Europe
EKLIPSE aims to encourage informed societal debate on environmental policy issues at the EU level using engagement methods such as science cafés. A science café on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) …
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Peer-reviewed article published in Nature Sustainability on the potential of citizen science to contribute data for monitoring progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper grew out of …
Collective-intelligence.lt
Collective intelligence (CI) is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with many other disciplines, including computer science, management, network science, economics, social psychology, sociology, political science etc. Collective intelligence differs from …