New project-supported publication considers Citizen Science's contributions to the UN's SGDs...
Finn Danielson from consortium partner NORDECO has contributed to a collection of 21 papers, published in Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, addressing the relationship between citizen science and the SDGs and/or other international agreements and frameworks.
Titled “The Contributions of Citizen Science to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Other International Agreements and Frameworks,” the collection considers different perspectives including those of citizen science researchers and practitioners, NSOs, and international organizations.
The authors posit that a lack of resources and institutional capacity makes the monitoring of the UN’s indicators for Sustainable Development goals very challenging for the producers and users of official statistics. They advocate for increased leveraging of citizen science as a solution to those issues.
To quote from the collection’s introduction:
“In a nutshell, this collection demonstrates that several issues need urgent attention to leverage citizen science approaches for the SDGs and other frameworks, while simultaneously utilizing these frameworks to fully realize the potential of citizen science. These issues include insufficient inclusiveness and lack of long-term participant engagement in many citizen science intiatives, which is in part related to the lack of sustainable funding. Additionally, a lack of awareness of the SDGs and other frameworks within the citizen science community and a lack of understanding of citizen science data and approaches among the official statistics and policy communities was also highlighted, which requires establishing partnerships between these actors and other stakeholders.”
To read the full collection, visit Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (CSTP) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication focused on the global field of citizen science and other participatory sciences. It provides a venue to share and advance related theories and practices, and serves those interested in and contributing to citizen science across all disciplines, including scientists, educators, community organizers, evaluators, information technologists, and resource managers.
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