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Comment on The Formosa Case: A Step Forward on the Acceptance of Citizen-Collected Evidence in Environmental Litigation? by How to win court cases by leveraging citizen science data | CitiMeasure

How to win court cases by leveraging citizen science data | CitiMeasure — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:04:38 +0000

[…] example, a case that inspired us was civic monitoring of plastic pollution in the Lavaca Bay in Texas, run exclusively by local fisherwomen and […]

Comment on Evolution of academic publications in citizen science by David Roldán Álvarez

David Roldán Álvarez — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:50:58 +0000

In reply to Jessica Pidoux.

Hi Jessica,

Thanks for your comment! We have that data for some of the publications (Books, journals and conferences). If you want that information you can write me an email so I can send you the list.

Best regards,
David

Comment on Evolution of academic publications in citizen science by Jessica Pidoux

Jessica Pidoux — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:23:30 +0000

Very useful report! Is there a way to know in which journals are authors publishing?

Comment on The Formosa Case: A Step Forward on the Acceptance of Citizen-Collected Evidence in Environmental Litigation? by Anna Berti Suman

Anna Berti Suman — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:03:53 +0000

In consultation with Amy Johnson, lawyer of the plaintiffs’ of the Formosa case, we would like to stress two points. On the sentence ‘From a subjective perspective, citizens must demonstrate they are personally affected’, we meant that in order to file a lawsuit citizens must demonstrate to have an interest, i.e. legal standing. However, citizens do not need to demonstrate to be personally affected to present evidence. Anyone can present evidence in an American court, without necessarily having an interest. On the idea of development of standards of admissibility for citizen science evidence in court, again in consultation with Amy Johnson, we acknowledge that such a recognition is not needed in the US where the Federal Rules of Evidence apply (under factual evidence). In Europe, however, as a civil law system, the lack of explicit recognition is not only creating uncertainty but it is also often putting at risk those citizens that gather evidence on the ground (for example close to companies’ premises). In such contexts, a legal recognition may be advisable.

Comment on Characteristics and nature of Citizen Science in Europe today by Ohto Sabel

Ohto Sabel — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:20:24 +0000

In reply to Ella.

Thank you, Ella. A very good and relevant question! In the grouping of different fields we used the categorization presented by Scopus. Similar kinds of categories are used in other citation datebases.
Please, if you have any further questions, feel free to post here or by email.

Regards,
Ohto Sabel, JYU.

Comment on Characteristics and nature of Citizen Science in Europe today by Ohto Sabel

Ohto Sabel — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:11:28 +0000

In reply to Reuma De-Groot. Thank you, Reuma, for the comments and questions. These results are based on the projects' survey results. Regards, Ohto

Comment on Characteristics and nature of Citizen Science in Europe today by Ohto Sabel

Ohto Sabel — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:07:53 +0000

In reply to Ella.

Thank you, Ella, for the questions. The data was collected in a web survey. The survey was distributed both nationally and internationally using media, webpages and citizen science groups in EU. We got responses little over 1000 participants from across EU.

Regards, Ohto Sabel, JYU

Comment on Characteristics and nature of Citizen Science in Europe today by Ella

Ella — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:56:15 +0000

Thank you for this report.
Could you clarify what the difference between the “agriculture and biological sciences” and “environmental science” described above and your reference to “biology” and “ecology” in the last section of this article.
Thanks!

Comment on Characteristics and nature of Citizen Science in Europe today by Ella

Ella — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:53:24 +0000

In reply to Reuma De-Groot. Thank you for this analysis. I am also interested in understanding how this data was collected and what the sample size and distribution was.

Comment on Characteristics and nature of Citizen Science in Europe today by Reuma De-Groot

Reuma De-Groot — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 06:17:32 +0000

very impressive report!! excellent work. i wonder whether the data presented in this article are based only on the projects’ survey and or on more sources of data collected in this field.
the information brought in this article is very interesting and relevant in this field.