A new research paper entitled “When It Rains, It Pours: Integrating Citizen Science Methods to Understand Resilience of Urban Green Spaces” was recently published. Researchers used citizen science methods to assess flood mitigation potential of urban green spaces in three European cities, namely Birmingham, London, and Chantilly (France). They found that involving citizen scientists in this research project was not only beneficial to the scientific community but also to local residents who could take actions to improve infiltration in their local areas. To access the paper please click 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...
