The threefold potential of environmental citizen science - Generating knowledge, creating learning opportunities and enabling civic participation
The threefold potential of environmental citizen science - Generating knowledge, creating learning opportunities and enabling civic participation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2018.03.024
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Bonn, Aletta
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作者：
Turrini, Tabea;Doerler, Daniel;Bonn, Aletta
公民科学在科学、社会和政策方面具有巨大的创新潜力。为了实现环境和自然保育的目标，公民科学可以(i)产生新知识，（ii）提高意识和促进深入学习，以及（iii）促进公民参与。在这里，我们研究了如何在公民科学项目中实现这些目标，并评估了推进公民科学和刺激未来计划的需求和挑战。为此，我们对来自德国、奥地利和瑞士的143名环境和教育部门的专家进行了一项基于网络的定量调查。我们的研究结果表明，公民科学项目经理追求的目标与所有三个潜在影响领域相关。有趣的是，在产生新知识和创造学习机会方面，使公民参与被认为略不那么重要。根据我们的分析，需要采取不同领域的行动。为了充分实现公民科学产生知识的潜力，应该优先考虑通过出版，也包括在科学期刊上，提高与科学界更有效地分享研究成果的能力。为了更好地理解公民科学学习成果，需要进行系统的评估，并为此制定标准。培育允许参与者参与从提出研究问题到实施结果的整个研究过程的项目形式，可以在社会层面上增强公民科学的变革方面。需要解决的重要结构方面包括调整资助计划、促进公民和学术界科学家之间的交流，以及提供培训、指导和建立网络。
Citizen science offers significant innovation potential in science, society and policy. To foster environmental and conservation goals, citizen science can (i) generate new knowledge, (ii) enhance awareness raising and facilitate in-depth learning as well as (iii) enable civic participation. Here, we investigate how these aims are realised in citizen science projects and assess needs and challenges for advancing citizen science and stimulating future initiatives. To this end, we conducted a quantitative, web-based survey with 143 experts from the environmental and educational sector in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Our findings show that citizen science project managers pursue goals related to all three areas of potential impact. Interestingly, enabling civic participation was considered slightly less important in relation to generating new knowledge and creating learning opportunities. Different areas of necessary action emerge from our analysis. To fully realize the potential of citizen science for generating knowledge, priority should be given to enhance capacities to more effectively share research results with the scientific community through publication, also in scientific journals. Systematic evaluation is needed to gain a better understanding of citizen science learning outcomes, for which criteria need to be developed. Fostering project formats that allow participants to get involved in the whole research process from posing the study question to implementing results - could enhance the transformative aspect of citizen science at a societal level. Important structural aspects that need to be addressed include adjustments in funding schemes, facilitation of communication between citizens and academia-based scientists, and offers for training, guidance and networking.