Citizen Science Tools for Engaging Local Stakeholders and Promoting Local and Traditional Knowledge in Landscape Stewardship

Danielsen, Finn; Enghoff, Martin; Magnussen, Eyðfinn; Mustonen, Tero; Degteva, Anna; Hansen, Kristin; Levermann, Nette; Mathiesen, Svein D.; Slettemark, Øystein; Bieling, Claudia; Plieninger, Tobías

doi:10.1017/9781316499016.009

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“…However, the monitoring framework is largely a top-down effort informed by global frameworks (such as the Convention on Biodiversity), with only one out of eight indicator selection criteria referencing information needs of Arctic communities and policymakers (Gill and Zöckler 2008 ). Bottom-up initiatives that are responsive to the local situation (Danielsen et al 2017 ) or focused on specific management outcomes—such as a food security framework put forward by the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska (ICC 2015 )—may help to maintain relevance and facilitate continuity of monitoring programs. At the same time, the potential of bottom-up approaches to contribute data to global observing programs often remains unrealized because of lack of capacity for local audiences to engage with activities and frameworks beyond the local scale.…”

Section: Top-down and Bottom-up Observing And Monitoringmentioning

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Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Environmental Observing

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Effective responses to rapid environmental change rely on observations to inform planning and decision-making. Reviewing literature from 124 programs across the globe and analyzing survey data for 30 Arctic community-based monitoring programs, we compare top-down, large-scale program driven approaches with bottom-up approaches initiated and steered at the community level. Connecting these two approaches and linking to Indigenous and local knowledge yields benefits including improved information products and enhanced observing program efficiency and sustainability. We identify core principles central to such improved links: matching observing program aims, scales, and ability to act on information; matching observing program and community priorities; fostering compatibility in observing methodology and data management; respect of Indigenous intellectual property rights and the implementation of free, prior, and informed consent; creating sufficient organizational support structures; and ensuring sustained community members’ commitment. Interventions to overcome challenges in adhering to these principles are discussed.

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“…Some programs use multiple platforms to host and share different data sets or to reach different end users. Facebook and other social media platforms are frequently used within communities to share information relevant to environmental and social observing (Danielsen et al 2017 ). Some CBM programs have created pages on Facebook to encourage sharing of observations.…”

Section: Survey Results: Why and How Are Digital Platforms Used In Cbm Programs?mentioning

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The Use of Digital Platforms for Community-Based Monitoring

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Environmental observing programs that are based on Indigenous and local knowledge increasingly use digital technologies. Digital platforms may improve data management in community-based monitoring (CBM) programs, but little is known about how their use translates into tangible results. Drawing on published literature and a survey of 18 platforms, we examine why and how digital platforms are used in CBM programs and illuminate potential challenges and opportunities. Digital platforms make it easy to collect, archive, and share CBM data, facilitate data use, and support understanding larger-scale environmental patterns through interlinking with other platforms. Digital platforms, however, also introduce new challenges, with implications for the sustainability of CBM programs and communities’ abilities to maintain control of their own data. We expect that increased data access and strengthened technical capacity will create further demand within many communities for ethically developed platforms that aid in both local and larger-scale decision-making.

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“…In collaboration with local and indigenous people, MA-PEEX will further develop community-based observation systems in the coastal regions of the marine Arctic. Some community-based observing systems have been established in all Arctic countries (Gofman, 2010;John-son et al, 2016;Danielsen et al, 2017). In Appendix B we summarize the present systems in Greenland, which are among the most advanced and may serve as an example to develop analogous systems in the other parts of the MA-PEEX domain.…”

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“…In all countries around the Arctic, there are communitybased observing systems (Gofman, 2010;Johnson et al, 2016;Danielsen et al, 2017; online atlas available at http: //www.arcticcbm.org/, last access: 23 January 2019). With more people coming to the marine areas of the Arctic, there will be increasing opportunities for community members to contribute to better understanding of the marine Arctic ecosystems and their biotic and abiotic components (Eicken et al, 2014;Johnson et al, 2015Johnson et al, , 2018Nordic Council of Ministers, 2015;Fidel et al, 2017).…”

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Towards an advanced observation system for the marine Arctic in the framework of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX)

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Sandven³

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Abstract. The Arctic marine climate system is changing rapidly, which is seen in the warming of the ocean and atmosphere, decline of sea ice cover, increase in river discharge, acidification of the ocean, and changes in marine ecosystems. Socio-economic activities in the coastal and marine Arctic are simultaneously changing. This calls for the establishment of a marine Arctic component of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (MA-PEEX). There is a need for more in situ observations on the marine atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean, but increasing the amount of such observations is a pronounced technological and logistical challenge. The SMEAR (Station for Measuring Ecosystem–Atmosphere Relations) concept can be applied in coastal and archipelago stations, but in the Arctic Ocean it will probably be more cost-effective to further develop a strongly distributed marine observation network based on autonomous buoys, moorings, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These have to be supported by research vessel and aircraft campaigns, as well as various coastal observations, including community-based ones. Major manned drifting stations may occasionally be comparable to terrestrial SMEAR flagship stations. To best utilize the observations, atmosphere–ocean reanalyses need to be further developed. To well integrate MA-PEEX with the existing terrestrial–atmospheric PEEX, focus is needed on the river discharge and associated fluxes, coastal processes, and atmospheric transports in and out of the marine Arctic. More observations and research are also needed on the specific socio-economic challenges and opportunities in the marine and coastal Arctic, and on their interaction with changes in the climate and environmental system. MA-PEEX will promote international collaboration; sustainable marine meteorological, sea ice, and oceanographic observations; advanced data management; and multidisciplinary research on the marine Arctic and its interaction with the Eurasian continent.

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Citizen Science Tools for Engaging Local Stakeholders and Promoting Local and Traditional Knowledge in Landscape Stewardship

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Environmental Observing

Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Environmental Observing

The Use of Digital Platforms for Community-Based Monitoring

Towards an advanced observation system for the marine Arctic in the framework of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX)

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