Characteristics of immersive citizen science experiences that drive conservation engagement

Day, Georgia; Fuller, Richard A.; Nichols, Cassandra; Dean, Angela J.

doi:10.1002/pan3.10332

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“…CS projects can leverage this potential by encouraging monitoring in teams or groups as done in the FLOW program, or by organizing opportunities to meet and socialize with other, likeminded (citizen) scientists. It is also important for citizen scientists to experience that they can make a difference (Day et al, 2022;Newman et al, 2017). For instance, inviting citizen scientists and other stakeholders to co-design and implement local stream management measures can create new ecological insights, help to legitimize conservation measures, and reduce conflicts among stakeholders (McKinley et al, 2017).…”

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Citizen science for assessing pesticide impacts in agricultural streams

Gönner

Bowler

Gröning

et al. 2023

Science of The Total Environment

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Section: Opportunities Limitations and Future Outlook For Citizen Sci...mentioning

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Citizen science for assessing pesticide impacts in agricultural streams

Gönner

Bowler

Gröning

et al. 2023

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Whilst ordered logistic regression was considered, given the skewed nature of the data we opted to dichotomize these variables to a binary form. Whilst this does result in some loss of data, it is also not without precedent and follows past methodologies, including Day et al (2022), Macran et al (1994), Manor et al (2000 and Power et al (1996).…”

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Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences

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1. Natural soundscapes experienced in parks are increasingly recognised as a valuable ecosystem service, yet urban parks soundscapes also commonly contain anthropogenic noise.2. While studies show bird calls can promote psychological restoration, the factors that might influence actual experiences of these sounds by individuals in urban parks are less clear. Equally, continual exposure to anthropogenic noise, such as vehicle traffic, is associated with negative health outcomes, but determinants influencing negative experiences of such sounds within a park soundscape are poorly understood.3. To address this gap we used an ex situ survey of over 4000 Australian residents and examined a range of spatial and social factors in influencing perceptions towards noticing and pleasantness of bird sounds and traffic noise within urban parks.4. The results indicate older age, recent park use, and valuing parks for uses such as exercising, socialising and to hear nature, were positively associated with pleasant bird sound experiences in parks. For traffic sounds, we found indicators of disadvantage, such as renting a home were associated with a higher likelihood of unpleasant experiences of traffic noise within parks. Notably, individuals using parks for social activities were still positively associated with pleasant bird sound experiences and less likely to perceive traffic sounds as unpleasant. Conversely, whilst those with greater nature-relatedness had a strong positive association with pleasant bird sound experiences, they were more likely to perceive traffic as unpleasant.5. Overall, these findings suggest that whilst many types of park users can potentially experience the beneficial effects from bird sounds, the detrimental effects of traffic noise may constrain these benefits in certain social groups, particularly those of greater socio-economic disadvantage. We discuss strategies to promote greater equity of therapeutic experiences of bird sounds in parks, whilst outlining traffic mitigation measures within urban parks.

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“…This was followed by the references to indirect engagement/indirect contact with nature, with responses (44) such as 'Meeting up with my friends and walking my dog is fun here'. Direct engagement with nature was substantially (17) The analysis of logbook responses shows use of more descriptive and specific vocabulary and indicates that it enabled hidden nature to be revealed.…”

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“…While recent evidence indicates a positive shift in general perceptions of the nature-human relationship, the public engagement in actively This research aims to explore how these factors play into the overall dynamics of greenspace engagement and governance in the pilot site. It seeks to examine the placemaking potential of encouraging intentional engagement with greenspaces through simple nature-based activities [11,13,17], with the objective of creating empathy for the natural environment. Thus, this work explores the use of softwares as a tool to facilitate greenspace engagement and pro-nature-conservation behaviours in communities and, in turn, better management of these greenspaces.…”

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Place-Keeping in the Park: Testing a Living Lab Approach to Facilitate Nature Connectedness in Urban Greenspaces

Willis

Gupta

2023

Sustainability

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Green infrastructure, particularly public greenspaces such as urban parks, plays an important role in urban environments, and improving public participation in greenspace practices and encouraging environmental stewardship can help to address some of the challenges of greenspace governance. We identify a gap in the research as to whether participation in citizen science projects can enhance connections between people and place and encourage better community participation in the stewardship of parks and urban greenspaces. The research adopts a Living Lab approach to utilise the inherent knowledge of the local community in developing digital experiments in the pilot site using a Nature Data Probe toolkit and seeks to explore its potential for enhancing nature connectedness by revealing hidden nature. We describe an action research method working with participants from a secondary school located close to a large urban park in Plymouth, UK. The results found that participants were more observant of hidden nature following the workshop and that an increase in the number of participants, and in the specific and descriptive responses identifying nature, was observed. These findings indicate that a deeper awareness of the natural environment was created and, in summary, we discuss the implications of this as a pathway to increased participation in greenspace governance.

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Characteristics of immersive citizen science experiences that drive conservation engagement

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 25 publications

References 71 publications

Citizen science for assessing pesticide impacts in agricultural streams

Citizen science for assessing pesticide impacts in agricultural streams

Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences

Place-Keeping in the Park: Testing a Living Lab Approach to Facilitate Nature Connectedness in Urban Greenspaces

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