Book Details

The Science of Citizen Science

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-58278-4

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This book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades.


Subject: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies / Communication Studies / User Interfaces and Human / Computer Interaction / Science, Humanities and Social / Sciences, multidisciplinary / Environment Studies / Multimedia Information Systems / Citizen science tools and guidelines / Data quality, standardization, interoperability / Evaluation and quality criteria in citizen science / Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity / Knowledge transfer and science communication