The grand challenges facing environmental citizen science
Steffen Fritz, Linda See, F. Grey
Abstract
Citizen science is becoming increasingly popular as a way of engaging citizens in environmental monitoring. There has been a wide discussion around what citizen science is and is not. For example, should it include only active or deliberate contributions by \nparticipants, or can it also include passive or involuntary citizen participation, e.g., where crowdsourced data on social media are analyzed for a specific scientific purpose? Should it only be voluntary, or can it also include payments?
Topics & Concepts
Grand ChallengesCitizen sciencePolitical scienceEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental planningEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental ethicsPhysicsLawAstronomyPhilosophySpecies Distribution and Climate Change