This report entitled Community Citizen Science – from promise to action by Rand used findings from disaster response and recovery case studies to identify specific considerations for community citizen science implementation and impacts. Based on 4 key research questions, including a consideration of the nature of community citizen science and its potential uses, the report comes up with a number of interesting findings along with recommendations including the importance of integrating programs with established scientific institutions through partnerships, publications, or research dissemination avenues as a way to enhance credibility and gain access to resources. Check out the report here.
A new major driver in bottom-up action to tackle climate change
A new international project AURORA (“Achieving a new European Energy Awareness”) has been launched to empower the people of Europe to take ownership of the climate change debate. The project fosters an explicitly citizen-led, bottom-up approach compared to the more...
