The importance of ocean science diplomacy for ocean affairs, global sustainability, and the UN decade of ocean science

A Polejack - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ocean is highly impacted by human activities, and ambitious levels of science are
urgently needed to support decision making in order to achieve sustainability. Due to the …

Understanding crowdsourcing in science

R Lenart-Gansiniec, W Czakon, Ł Sułkowski… - Review of Managerial …, 2023 - Springer
Over the past 16 years, the concept of crowdsourcing has rapidly gained traction across
many research fields. While related debates focused mainly on its importance for business …

Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy

P Weingart, M Joubert, K Connoway - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
'Public engagement with science'has become a 'buzzword'reflecting a concern about the
widening gap between science and society and efforts to bridge this gap. This study is a …

Democratising measurement: Or why thick concepts call for coproduction

A Alexandrova, M Fabian - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Springer
Thick concepts, namely those concepts that describe and evaluate simultaneously, present
a challenge to science. Since science does not have a monopoly on value judgments, what …

The problem with delineating narrow criteria for citizen science

J Auerbach, EL Barthelmess… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Heigl et al.(1) propose an international definition of citizen science based on quality criteria
for projects. As an international group of scholars with extensive background in the theory …

Citizen science in deliberative systems: Participation, epistemic injustice, and civic empowerment

L Herzog, R Lepenies - Minerva, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we bring together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative
democracy and epistemic injustice. We argue that citizen science can be seen as one …

100 opportunities for more inclusive ocean research: cross-disciplinary research questions for sustainable ocean governance and management

MS Wisz, EV Satterthwaite, M Fudge… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In order to inform decision making and policy, research to address sustainability challenges
requires cross-disciplinary approaches that are co-created with a wide and inclusive …

Principles and practical criteria for effective participatory environmental planning and decision-making

J Carrick, D Bell, C Fitzsimmons, T Gray… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Participation is increasingly used to legitimize and improve environmental decision making.
However, in practice participants often find the process empty and frustrating. This has …

Towards a transdisciplinary theoretical framework of citizen science: results from a meta-review analysis

A Spasiano, S Grimaldi, AM Braccini, F Nardi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work intends to lay the foundations for a theoretical framework of citizen science
combining social and organizational implications with the support of information …

The emergence of microbiological inputs and the challenging laboratorisation of agriculture: lessons from Brazil and Mexico

F Goulet, S Fonteyne, SL Ridaura, P Niederle… - Agriculture and Human …, 2024 - Springer
In this article, we analyse the tensions associated with the emergence of microorganism-
based agricultural inputs in two Latin American countries, Brazil and Mexico. More …