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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Reviews Methods Primers Année : 2022

Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences

Dilek Fraisl
Gerid Hager
Margaret Gold
Pen-Yuan Hsing
Finn Danielsen
Colleen B Hitchcock
Joseph M Hulbert
Jaume Piera
Helen Spiers
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Martin Thiel
Mordechai Haklay

Résumé

Citizen science, broadly defined as public participation in scientific research and knowledge production, is becoming an increasingly well developed and valued approach with global reach and used in a wide range of scientific domains 1-3. Much of this growth is driven by the availability of information technology infrastructures such as mobile phones and low-cost sensors for gathering and reporting data, the internet for sharing data, and cloud storage for hosting and storing data 4,5. Growing literacy levels and educational attainment in many parts of the world also make it possible for many more people to contribute to knowledge creation in a meaningful way 6,7. Citizen science initiatives involve the public in the research process to generate genuine scientific outcomes 8-11. These outcomes include discoveries, such as in astrophysics 12 and archaeology projects 13 ; new insights, such as in epidemiology 14 and socio-linguistics projects 15 ; evidence-based policymaking, such as in pollution-monitoring initiatives 16-18 ; interventions such as in public health research 19 ; and environmental governance, including in ecology and biodiversity monitoring initiatives 20-22. Citizen science research can fill important data gaps across both time and space 23 , which might not otherwise be possible without the contribution of many participants, including people with local and lay knowledge 24,25 or Indigenous knowledge 26,27 .
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hal-04201076 , version 1 (12-09-2023)

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Dilek Fraisl, Gerid Hager, Baptiste Bedessem, Margaret Gold, Pen-Yuan Hsing, et al.. Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2022, 2 (1), pp.64. ⟨10.1038/s43586-022-00144-4⟩. ⟨hal-04201076⟩

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