2022
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000065
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Improve water quality through meaningful, not just any, citizen science

Abstract: Water pollution is an urgent and complex problem worldwide, with many dire consequences for ecosystems, human health and economic development. Although policy measures in OECD countries have helped to reduce point source pollution, the situation is set to worsen: population growth and climate change are placing increasing pressures on the ability of water bodies to process wastewater, nutrients and contaminants [1].For future generations to maintain a sufficient supply of clean drinking water and to retain a v… Show more

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“…The general populace has huge potential to make large-scale changes and contributions to water quality monitoring and management, through collective alterations in behavior, inclusion in the scientific process, and engagement with policy creators and implementing agencies (Reid et al 2019;Capdevila et al 2020;Cook et al 2021). The involvement of citizens in science comes in many forms, from simply collecting data, through to citizen-led science where citizens are engaged in research conceptualization, data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting (Buytaert et al 2014;Graham and Taylor 2018;Schölvinck et al 2022). Whichever way the system is set up, citizen science offers data collection and scientific engagement that is dynamic, decentralized and more diverse (Hadj-Hammou et al 2017;Dörler et al 2021).…”
Section: Citizen Science For Collaborative Inclusive Water Resource M...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The general populace has huge potential to make large-scale changes and contributions to water quality monitoring and management, through collective alterations in behavior, inclusion in the scientific process, and engagement with policy creators and implementing agencies (Reid et al 2019;Capdevila et al 2020;Cook et al 2021). The involvement of citizens in science comes in many forms, from simply collecting data, through to citizen-led science where citizens are engaged in research conceptualization, data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting (Buytaert et al 2014;Graham and Taylor 2018;Schölvinck et al 2022). Whichever way the system is set up, citizen science offers data collection and scientific engagement that is dynamic, decentralized and more diverse (Hadj-Hammou et al 2017;Dörler et al 2021).…”
Section: Citizen Science For Collaborative Inclusive Water Resource M...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another major barrier to citizen science is built-in; citizen science generally relies on volunteers (Thornhill et al 2019;Schölvinck et al 2022). Consequently, citizen science needs to factor in volunteer motivation when designing monitoring projects or research, ensuring that volunteers find the involvement to be engaging, accessible and worthy of repetition (Alender 2016;Carlson and Cohen 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…As such, profit must be secondary to the propagation and distribution of the knowledges that will be our guide for future use and management of this common good. In fact, if we are to do as Scho ¨lvinck et al [2] recommend ". .…”
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“…The relationship between professional scientist and citizen scientist is largely data centered and acquisitive: “Please give us the data so we can go do science.” Citizen scientists supply data but infrequently engage with the outputs of data analysis (Schölvinck et al. 2022 ). Professional scientists interact with citizen scientists to carefully train them to collect or analyze data but often neglect to include them at the end of the study by sharing how their contributions were used to generate scientific results, models, or decision-making tools (Wehn et al.…”
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