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The Contributions of Citizen Science to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Other International Agreements and Frameworks
This Special Collection explores the contributions of citizen science to the SDGs and other international frameworks covering topics related to data and monitoring and the transformative potential of citizen science. It reflects on how this new research field has evolved over the past few years both in scientific literature and through action.
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Citizen Science and Law
This special collection explores citizen science instances that engage with the legal realm. Articles feature conflicts acted out in court, when citizen science push for changes to fill institutional gaps, as well as how public institutions are preparing for, or resisting, input from citizen science for decision-making and law enforcement. Image by Alice Toietta, SensJus project (CC BY 4.0)View articles - Collection
Biomedical Citizen Science
This special collection explores how citizen scientists facilitate biomedical discovery and the practical, social, legal, and ethical dimensions of their work. The broad goal of the collection is to increase awareness of citizen science engagement in the biomedical sciences and promote dialogue among its global stakeholders.View articles - Collection
Citizen Science in Higher Education
This collection explores how citizen science is integrated in higher education for teaching, learning, professional development, and community building.
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Disaster, Infrastructure, and Participatory Knowledge
This collection focuses on how infrastructure—physical, social and digital—mediates citizen and community science responses to all types of disaster.View articles - Collection
Policy Perspectives in Citizen Science
Articles in this special issue explore challenges and opportunities for citizen science and crowdsourcing when applied to developing policy at local, regional, national, and international levels. Papers cover topics ranging from invasive species management to sustainable development and include frameworks and recommendations.View articles - Collection
Ethical Issues in Citizen Science
As the field of citizen science grows, many ethical issues arise concerning public participation in scientific research. Practitioners must address these issues to ensure the integrity of the field. This special collection includes ten papers that describe and analyze a range of such issues and offer recommendations for moving the field forward.View articles
