Worldwide, decision-makers and nongovernment organizations are increasing their use of
citizen volunteers to enhance their ability to monitor and manage natural resources, track …

Attempts to monitor the quality of freshwater resources on a global scale unveil huge data
lacks. Involving citizens in data collection has potential to resolve this lack of water quality …

Citizen science, where citizens play an active role in the scientific process, is increasingly
used to expand the reach and scope of scientific research while also achieving engagement …

Indigenous peoples are increasingly developing Community-Based Monitoring programs to
protect the waters and lands within their territories in response to multiple ecological and …

Analyses of participation usually assume a dichotomy between 'instrumental'and
'transformative'approaches. However, this study of voluntary biological monitoring …

Volunteers play a key role in natural resource management: their commitment, time and
labour constitute a major contribution towards managing environments in Australia and …

Since two decades ago, when the first GM crops were introduced, there have increasingly
been hot debates on the applications of gene manipulation. Currently, the development of …

Members of the public are involved increasingly in environmental and wildlife monitoring.
This has clear environmental benefits in terms of the contribution to long-term datasets and …

This article presents an adaptable community-based monitoring (CBM) framework. The
investigators used a well-tested conceptual CBM framework developed by the Canadian …

This article examines the rescaling of transboundary water governance along the Canada–
US border. We draw on recent research in geography on rescaling and borderlands to query …