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Aletta Bonn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice
The Science of Citizen Science, 2021Co-Authors: Luigi Ceccaroni, Aletta Bonn, S. Woods, James Sprinks, Sacoby Wilson, Elaine M. Faustman, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Laia Subirats, Aya H. KimuraAbstract:This chapter considers the interface of Citizen Science, health, and environmental justice. We review Citizen Science research undertaken by civic educators, scientists, and communities that aims to broaden scientific knowledge and encourage democratic engagement and, more specifically, to address complex problems related to public health and the environment. We provide a review of the current state of existing Citizen Science projects and examine how Citizen Science, health, and environmental justice impact each other, both positively and negatively. Specific challenges that relate to these projects are discussed, especially those that are not obvious or applicable to more traditional Citizen Science projects.
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Citizen Science and marine conservation: a global review.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B Biological sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Gretta T. Pecl, Julia Von Gönner, Aletta BonnAbstract:Climate change, overfishing, marine pollution and other anthropogenic drivers threaten our global oceans. More effective efforts are urgently required to improve the capacity of marine conservation action worldwide, as highlighted by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. Marine Citizen Science presents a promising avenue to enhance engagement in marine conservation around the globe. Building on an expanding field of Citizen Science research and practice, we present a global overview of the current extent and potential of marine Citizen Science and its contribution to marine conservation. Employing an online global survey, we explore the geographical distribution, type and format of 74 marine Citizen Science projects. By assessing how the projects adhere to the Ten Principles of Citizen Science (as defined by the European Citizen Science Association), we investigate project development, identify challenges and outline future opportunities to contribute to marine Science and conservation. Synthesizing the survey results and drawing on evidence from case studies of diverse projects, we assess whether and how Citizen Science can lead to new scientific knowledge and enhanced environmental stewardship. Overall, we explore how marine Citizen Science can inform current understanding of marine biodiversity and support the development and implementation of marine conservation initiatives worldwide. This article is part of the theme issue 'Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation'.
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social license through Citizen Science a tool for marine conservation
Ecology and Society, 2019Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Active and meaningful public engagement is necessary to foster informed and publicly accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents an important avenue by which to achieve such engagement. Citizen Science is the active involvement of the public in Science to address scientific questions, often of common interest or concern, by collecting and analyzing data, and publishing and communicating Science via diverse outlets. Here, we explore whether and how Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social license for marine conservation, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. Social license is a concept that reflects community views and expectations on the use and management of natural resources. To date, social license in the marine space has largely focused on public perceptions of industrial and extractive uses of the marine environment, and limited research has explored social license for conservation. We highlight important linkages between social license and Citizen Science that can work synergistically to support conservation. We use in-depth qualitative interviews and a semiquantitative online survey of marine Citizen Science coordinators to investigate how Citizen Science can play a role in enhancing social license and the mechanisms through which it can occur. Our findings indicate that Citizen Science can enhance social license by improving ocean literacy and marine Citizenship. We demonstrate that marine Citizen Science has considerable potential to generate and develop social license for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
Rachel Kelly - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Citizen Science and marine conservation: a global review.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B Biological sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Gretta T. Pecl, Julia Von Gönner, Aletta BonnAbstract:Climate change, overfishing, marine pollution and other anthropogenic drivers threaten our global oceans. More effective efforts are urgently required to improve the capacity of marine conservation action worldwide, as highlighted by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. Marine Citizen Science presents a promising avenue to enhance engagement in marine conservation around the globe. Building on an expanding field of Citizen Science research and practice, we present a global overview of the current extent and potential of marine Citizen Science and its contribution to marine conservation. Employing an online global survey, we explore the geographical distribution, type and format of 74 marine Citizen Science projects. By assessing how the projects adhere to the Ten Principles of Citizen Science (as defined by the European Citizen Science Association), we investigate project development, identify challenges and outline future opportunities to contribute to marine Science and conservation. Synthesizing the survey results and drawing on evidence from case studies of diverse projects, we assess whether and how Citizen Science can lead to new scientific knowledge and enhanced environmental stewardship. Overall, we explore how marine Citizen Science can inform current understanding of marine biodiversity and support the development and implementation of marine conservation initiatives worldwide. This article is part of the theme issue 'Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation'.
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social license through Citizen Science a tool for marine conservation
Ecology and Society, 2019Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Active and meaningful public engagement is necessary to foster informed and publicly accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents an important avenue by which to achieve such engagement. Citizen Science is the active involvement of the public in Science to address scientific questions, often of common interest or concern, by collecting and analyzing data, and publishing and communicating Science via diverse outlets. Here, we explore whether and how Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social license for marine conservation, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. Social license is a concept that reflects community views and expectations on the use and management of natural resources. To date, social license in the marine space has largely focused on public perceptions of industrial and extractive uses of the marine environment, and limited research has explored social license for conservation. We highlight important linkages between social license and Citizen Science that can work synergistically to support conservation. We use in-depth qualitative interviews and a semiquantitative online survey of marine Citizen Science coordinators to investigate how Citizen Science can play a role in enhancing social license and the mechanisms through which it can occur. Our findings indicate that Citizen Science can enhance social license by improving ocean literacy and marine Citizenship. We demonstrate that marine Citizen Science has considerable potential to generate and develop social license for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
Gretta T. Pecl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Citizen Science and marine conservation: a global review.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B Biological sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Gretta T. Pecl, Julia Von Gönner, Aletta BonnAbstract:Climate change, overfishing, marine pollution and other anthropogenic drivers threaten our global oceans. More effective efforts are urgently required to improve the capacity of marine conservation action worldwide, as highlighted by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. Marine Citizen Science presents a promising avenue to enhance engagement in marine conservation around the globe. Building on an expanding field of Citizen Science research and practice, we present a global overview of the current extent and potential of marine Citizen Science and its contribution to marine conservation. Employing an online global survey, we explore the geographical distribution, type and format of 74 marine Citizen Science projects. By assessing how the projects adhere to the Ten Principles of Citizen Science (as defined by the European Citizen Science Association), we investigate project development, identify challenges and outline future opportunities to contribute to marine Science and conservation. Synthesizing the survey results and drawing on evidence from case studies of diverse projects, we assess whether and how Citizen Science can lead to new scientific knowledge and enhanced environmental stewardship. Overall, we explore how marine Citizen Science can inform current understanding of marine biodiversity and support the development and implementation of marine conservation initiatives worldwide. This article is part of the theme issue 'Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation'.
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social license through Citizen Science a tool for marine conservation
Ecology and Society, 2019Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Active and meaningful public engagement is necessary to foster informed and publicly accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents an important avenue by which to achieve such engagement. Citizen Science is the active involvement of the public in Science to address scientific questions, often of common interest or concern, by collecting and analyzing data, and publishing and communicating Science via diverse outlets. Here, we explore whether and how Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social license for marine conservation, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. Social license is a concept that reflects community views and expectations on the use and management of natural resources. To date, social license in the marine space has largely focused on public perceptions of industrial and extractive uses of the marine environment, and limited research has explored social license for conservation. We highlight important linkages between social license and Citizen Science that can work synergistically to support conservation. We use in-depth qualitative interviews and a semiquantitative online survey of marine Citizen Science coordinators to investigate how Citizen Science can play a role in enhancing social license and the mechanisms through which it can occur. Our findings indicate that Citizen Science can enhance social license by improving ocean literacy and marine Citizenship. We demonstrate that marine Citizen Science has considerable potential to generate and develop social license for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
Aysha Fleming - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Citizen Science and marine conservation: a global review.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B Biological sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Gretta T. Pecl, Julia Von Gönner, Aletta BonnAbstract:Climate change, overfishing, marine pollution and other anthropogenic drivers threaten our global oceans. More effective efforts are urgently required to improve the capacity of marine conservation action worldwide, as highlighted by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. Marine Citizen Science presents a promising avenue to enhance engagement in marine conservation around the globe. Building on an expanding field of Citizen Science research and practice, we present a global overview of the current extent and potential of marine Citizen Science and its contribution to marine conservation. Employing an online global survey, we explore the geographical distribution, type and format of 74 marine Citizen Science projects. By assessing how the projects adhere to the Ten Principles of Citizen Science (as defined by the European Citizen Science Association), we investigate project development, identify challenges and outline future opportunities to contribute to marine Science and conservation. Synthesizing the survey results and drawing on evidence from case studies of diverse projects, we assess whether and how Citizen Science can lead to new scientific knowledge and enhanced environmental stewardship. Overall, we explore how marine Citizen Science can inform current understanding of marine biodiversity and support the development and implementation of marine conservation initiatives worldwide. This article is part of the theme issue 'Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation'.
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social license through Citizen Science a tool for marine conservation
Ecology and Society, 2019Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Active and meaningful public engagement is necessary to foster informed and publicly accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents an important avenue by which to achieve such engagement. Citizen Science is the active involvement of the public in Science to address scientific questions, often of common interest or concern, by collecting and analyzing data, and publishing and communicating Science via diverse outlets. Here, we explore whether and how Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social license for marine conservation, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. Social license is a concept that reflects community views and expectations on the use and management of natural resources. To date, social license in the marine space has largely focused on public perceptions of industrial and extractive uses of the marine environment, and limited research has explored social license for conservation. We highlight important linkages between social license and Citizen Science that can work synergistically to support conservation. We use in-depth qualitative interviews and a semiquantitative online survey of marine Citizen Science coordinators to investigate how Citizen Science can play a role in enhancing social license and the mechanisms through which it can occur. Our findings indicate that Citizen Science can enhance social license by improving ocean literacy and marine Citizenship. We demonstrate that marine Citizen Science has considerable potential to generate and develop social license for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
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Social licence through Citizen Science: A tool for marine conservation
bioRxiv, 2018Co-Authors: Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Anett Richter, Gretta T. Pecl, Aletta BonnAbstract:Citizen Science can increase social licence for conservation. With decreasing trust in government, active and meaningful public engagement in Science and data collection is needed to foster informed and publically-accepted natural resource management. Citizen Science presents a valuable avenue to achieve such engagement, in addition to other benefits. Citizen Science is a partnership between scientists and the public to address scientific questions of common interest or often, concern, and to collect, analyse, publish and communicate data for Science. This study explores whether Citizen Science can also play a role in generating social licence, using European marine Citizen Science as a case study. To date, social licence in the marine space has largely focused on industry and extractive uses of the marine environment. However, much could be gained in exploring social licence for non-extractive uses including marine conservation and the best means to engage the public to support these efforts. Here, we use in-depth semi-quantitative interviews and online surveys to demonstrate how Citizen Science may play a role in enhancing social licence and the mechanisms through which this can occur. Our research suggests that Citizen Science can engage and inform the public about Science and the marine environment and can enhance the flow and exchange of information between society, Science and marine management. Citizen Science may have considerable potential to generate and develop social licence for marine conservation in Europe and elsewhere.
Nick J. B. Isaac - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mapping species distributions in 2 weeks using Citizen Science
Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2019Co-Authors: Seirian Sumner, Peggy Bevan, Adam G. Hart, Nick J. B. IsaacAbstract:1. Ecological Citizen Science initiatives are growing in popularity with the increasing realisation of the potential for occurrence records to contribute information on biodiversity. However, Citizen Science data are justifiably criticised for misidentification, uneven sampling, incomplete detection or selective reporting. 2. Here, we test the accuracy of Citizen Science data for UK social wasp (Vespinae) species’ distributions. We compared data collected over two weeks by members of the public setting out baited traps across the UK and sending captured specimens for expert identification (1294 locations; 6680 wasps; 3 dominant species Vespula vulgaris (44%), V. germanica (44%), and Vespa crabro (6%)), with a four-decade long-term dataset established by the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS). 3. The Citizen Science data were significantly less spatially biased than the long-term data, but they were more urban-biased. Species distribution modelling showed that, for Vespa crabro, just two weeks of Citizen Science generated coverage comparable to more than four decades of expert recording. 4. Overall, we show that Citizen Science can be an extremely powerful and robust method for mapping insect diversity and distributions. We suggest that cautious combination of Citizen Science data with long-term expert surveying could be a highly reliable method for monitoring biodiversity.
