Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice

Ceccaroni, Luigi; Woods, Sasha; Sprinks, James; Wilson, Sacoby; Faustman, Elaine M.; Bonn, Aletta; Tzovaras, Bastian Greshake; Subirats, Laia; Kimura, Aya Hirata

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_12

Cited by 15 publications

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“…While EPA has created resources such as the quality assurance toolkit (Environmental Protection Agency, 2022b), houses an environmental monitoring tool loan program (Environmental Protection Agency, 2022a), and provides regional funding for citizen and community science projects, less capacity has been directed at systemic Agency-wide integration of community data and the infrastructure needed to 15 Citizen science and environmental justice and their influences can be described as a feedback loop, which can be positive or negative. See Figure 12.1 in Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice (Ceccaroni et al, 2021). 16 Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (https://digital.gov/communities/ crowdsourcing-citizen-science/).…”

Section: Why This: Data As a Tool Toward Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Data Usability: The Forgotten Segment of Environmental Data Workflows

Dosemagen¹,

Williams²

2022

Front. Clim.

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While there has been a rapid increase in the use of participatory science methods over the last decade, the usability of resulting data in addressing situations of environmental injustice is often overlooked, neglected, or used as political fuel for ignoring inconvenient truths. The inability of data to be used for policy, regulation, and enforcement impedes its usefulness in various situations depending on user requirements and governance scales. On the other hand, there are vast open datasets that could be useful for communities and researchers, but these data are often difficult to find, use, or repurpose, beyond their original intent. This article unpacks the data usability problem at the frontier of environmental governance and decision-making, suggesting that by prioritizing environmental data as a public good, there are clear mechanisms for ensuring data usability toward participatory environmental governance. The authors are interested in uncovering the policies and behavioral and bureaucratic patterns that have remained static as participatory science methods and tools have advanced. It is necessary to understand where and when associated tools, methods, and platforms have failed to ensure that data is usable and useful for communities attempting deeper engagement and representation in environmental governance.

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Section: Why This: Data As a Tool Toward Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Data Usability: The Forgotten Segment of Environmental Data Workflows

Dosemagen¹,

Williams²

2022

Front. Clim.

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“…"The involvement of citizens in scientific research and/or knowledge production, can complement and ultimately improve the SDG reporting process" [34] (p. 922) and improve the evidence-base for SD policies [35] (p. 373). It can also contribute to raising awareness for societal needs and environmental issues among both citizens and policy makers [36,37]. Citizens can thus challenge, contribute to, and shape the scientific knowledge that builds the evidence base for SD.…”

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The Value of Citizen Participation in Technology Assessment, Responsible Research and Innovation, and Sustainable Development

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The participation of citizens in scientific research has a long tradition, and in some disciplines, especially medical research, it is even common practice. In Technology Assessment (TA), Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), and Sustainable Development (SD), the participation of citizens can be of considerable value. In this paper, we explore this value for three concepts, based on the researcher’s insights from three participatory research projects. The first project is the citizen science project TeQfor1, which was conducted with, for, and on the type 1 diabetes community, who do not feel adequately supported by the conventional health care system. In the second project, citizens with vision impairments participated in the technological development of an audio-tactile navigation tool in the TERRAIN project. The third project (Nachtlichter) dealt with light pollution. Based on the three projects presented, we show that citizen participation makes specific contributions to TA, RRI, and SD. We also investigate the specificity of citizen engagement and motivation by differentiating between existing and emerging involvement. In conclusion, we discuss the benefits that may be added by participatory approaches for the three concepts of TA, RRI, and SD.

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“…This variety highlights how the influence of stakeholders and organizations, country contexts, and understanding can drive the definition of citizen science, and in turn, shape how projects are structured and run . Air-quality citizen science initiatives encompass this variety, using different combinations of monitoring technologies, methods, and partnerships, depending on the objectives and scale, motivations, and specific pollutants of concern (Ceccaroni et al 2021). The diversity of air quality citizen science initiatives is illustrated in Table 1.…”

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Clean Air Action: Applications of Citizen Science to Identify and Address Air Pollution Emission Sources

Moses

2022

WRIPUB

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Growing awareness of the health and environmental burden of air pollution combined with access to new low cost air pollution monitors has helped drive the explosion of citizen science initiatives. Despite this momentum, there remains little public attention to the sources or drivers of air pollution. Without greater emphasis on source awareness, scientists or community members using citizen science techniques cannot effectively identify or target interventions that cut emissions or build pressure for policies that hold specific polluters accountable to legal pollutant limits or best practices. To help understand how citizen science initiatives reflect or focus on sources of air pollution, this paper presents reflections from a purposive literature review of 33 case studies. Specifically it provides insights and a typology of citizen science initiatives that characterize how citizen science initiatives impact air pollution sources and provides recommendations for future approaches that could strengthen participatory science focused on pollution sources.

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Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Data Usability: The Forgotten Segment of Environmental Data Workflows

Data Usability: The Forgotten Segment of Environmental Data Workflows

The Value of Citizen Participation in Technology Assessment, Responsible Research and Innovation, and Sustainable Development

Clean Air Action: Applications of Citizen Science to Identify and Address Air Pollution Emission Sources

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