Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences

D Fraisl, G Hager, B Bedessem, M Gold… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific
domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non …

Community monitoring of natural resource systems and the environment

F Danielsen, H Eicken, M Funder… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Community monitoring can track environmental phenomena, resource use, and natural
resource management processes of concern to community members. It can also contribute …

Extreme citizen science: Lessons learned from initiatives around the globe

RM Chiaravalloti, A Skarlatidou, S Hoyte… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The participation of communities living in high conservation value areas is increasingly
valued in conservation science and practice, potentially producing multiple positive impacts …

Digitalizing forest landscape restoration: A social and political analysis of emerging technological practices

D Urzedo, M Westerlaken, J Gabrys - Environmental Politics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Digital technologies are increasingly influencing forest landscape restoration practices
worldwide. We investigate how digital platforms specifically reconfigure restoration …

The risks and rewards of community science for threatened species monitoring

P Soroye, BPM Edwards, RT Buxton… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Finding ways of efficiently monitoring threatened species can be critical to effective
conservation. The global proliferation of community science (also called citizen science) …

A framework of observer-based biases in citizen science biodiversity monitoring: Semi-structuring unstructured biodiversity monitoring protocols

O Arazy, D Malkinson - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Citizen science, whereby ordinary citizens participate in scientific endeavors, is widely used
for biodiversity monitoring, most commonly by relying on unstructured monitoring …

The known unknowns: what citizen science projects in Germany know about their volunteers—and what they don't know

N Moczek, S Hecker, SL Voigt-Heucke - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The citizen science landscape in Germany offers an enormous range for participation. More
than 170 projects currently present themselves on the national citizen science platform. In …

Using Sapelli in the field: methods and data for an inclusive citizen science

F Moustard, M Haklay, J Lewis, A Albert… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Sapelli smartphone application aims to support any community to engage in citizen
science activities to address local concerns and needs. However, Sapelli was designed and …

Geographies of science and technology III: Careful entanglements, responsible futures

M Mahony - Progress in Human Geography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In my previous progress reports I suggested that geographers might attend more to the leaky
boundaries of 'science'and 'technology'and to their imbrications in the mundane spaces of …

A local community on a global collective intelligence platform: A case study of individual preferences and collective bias in ecological citizen science

O Arazy, K Kaplan-Mintz, D Malkinson, Y Nagar - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The collective intelligence of crowds could potentially be harnessed to address global
challenges, such as biodiversity loss and species' extinction. For wisdom to emerge from the …