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Citizen Science and Sustainability Transitions
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 Citizen Science (CS) projects involve members of the general public as active participants in research. While some advocates hope that CS can increase scientific knowledge production (“productivity view”), others emphasize that it may bridge a perceived ...
Henry Sauermann +10 more
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The Diversity of Participants in Environmental Citizen Science
, 2021 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.
R. Pateman, A. Dyke, S. West
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Associations for Citizen Science: Regional Knowledge, Global Collaboration
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2016 Since 2012, three organizations advancing the work of citizen science practitioners have arisen in different regions: The primarily US-based but globally open Citizen Science Association (CSA), the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), and the ...
Martin Storksdieck +9 more
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AGU Advances, 2021 Recently, citizen scientist photographs led to the discovery of a new auroral form called “the dune aurora” which exhibits parallel stripes of brighter emission in the green diffuse aurora at about 100 km altitude. This discovery raised several questions,
Maxime Grandin +10 more
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Understanding State Government Appropriations For the Arts: 1976-1999 [PDF]
, 2006 Using panel data analysis, we examine the relative importance of citizen and government characteristics on a highly discretionary and volatile budget item: state appropriations to arts agencies. Despite the unimportance of arts spending to most citizens,
Gregory B. Lewis, Michael Rushton
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The Critical Importance of Citizen Science Data
Frontiers in Climate, 2021 Citizen science is an important vehicle for democratizing science and promoting the goal of universal and equitable access to scientific data and information.
A. de Sherbinin +12 more
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Understanding perceptions of citizen demeanour: using an experimental design to understand the impact of encounter and observer characteristics [PDF]
, 2016 Systematic social observations of police-citizen encounters have revealed that citizen demeanour is an important predictor of outcomes (e.g. arrests and searches).
Donovan, Kathleen M. +2 more
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Immigrants into Citizens [PDF]
The Political Quarterly, 2008 This paper examines the citizenship test which is part of the UK naturalisation process. The test is based on the government publication Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship. A detailed analysis of its two editions (2004 and 2007) reveals that the conception of the citizen, and the picture of British government and society underlying ...
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Citizen Science, Education, and Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
Frontiers in Sociology, 2020 Citizen science is a growing field of research and practice, generating new knowledge and understanding through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As the field expands, it is becoming increasingly important to consider its potential to
Joseph Roche +14 more
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Large-bodied birds are over-represented in unstructured citizen science data
Scientific Reports, 2021 Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen science datasets remains an important first step before these data are ...
C. Callaghan +4 more
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