Beyond “buy-in”: designing citizen participation in water planning as research

Hall, Damon M.; Gilbertz, Susan J.; Anderson, Matthew; Ward, Lucas

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.170

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“…The design phase of citizen‐science programs is arguably the key variable to successful implementation and participation (Hall et al , Wald et al ). In designing MI‐MAST we were primarily guided by recommendations from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and were able to achieve multiple elements that characterize successful programs such as 1) multiple coordinating institutions, 2) diverse partnerships in program management, and 3) monitoring a phenomenon that is easily accessible by the public and has ecological or social importance (Bonney et al , Chase and Levine ).…”

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Implementing and evaluating a citizen‐science program to support wildlife management: MI‐MAST

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Citizen science is increasingly being used by natural resource professionals to monitor the environment at large spatial or temporal extents. Developing, initiating, and sustaining an effective citizen‐science program requires careful planning, marketing, and engagement. We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a citizen‐science program for quantifying mast production (called MI‐MAST: Wildlife Food Tracker), and offer recommendations on marketing, recruitment of volunteers, and ways to sustain programs. In 2014, MI‐MAST was introduced to approximately 150 potential participants to test technology and capabilities of volunteers. In 2015, we worked with project partners to market MI‐MAST to approximately 500 additional potential participants throughout Michigan, USA. From 2014 to 2017, 510 people registered for a MI‐MAST account, but only 57 people submitted data. On average, each person that submitted data entered 4 instances of mast production. We randomly field‐validated 60 mast observations submitted by 15 different participants throughout the study region and found that 100% of the plant species were correctly identified and 97% of the records describing mast amounts were accurate. The majority (61%) of registered users listed hunting as a primary outdoor interest. Interactions with participants revealed that using MI‐MAST to evaluate mast production on their own property was a primary attraction for enrollment and participation. We recommend that effective citizen‐science programs are marketed to provide personal benefits and tangible outputs to individual users. We found the biggest challenges facing a natural resource agency implementing a citizen‐science program to be recruitment and retention of participants across spatial and temporal extents that are ecologically meaningful. © 2018 The Wildlife Society.

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Implementing and evaluating a citizen‐science program to support wildlife management: MI‐MAST

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“…Benefits to in-person surveys are that participants are able to ask questions and surveyors can oversee survey completion cf. [31,32]. Surveys were printed on A3 sized paper (11" × 17"), and contained demographic questions, a street map of the study area, and instructions for identifying routes.…”

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“…This paper seeks to inform development of urban bicycle infrastructure policy that can transition society towards sustainability. Using sustainability science as a framework for generating usable knowledge [29,30], we argue that empirically-driven approaches relying on site-specific and user-centered data [31,32] offer alternative means of matching infrastructure with cyclists riding preferences. First we review instruments for evaluating bicycle networks.…”

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Assessing the Bicycle Network in St. Louis: A PlaceBased User-Centered Approach

2017

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Abstract:To transition towards sustainability and increase low-impact transportation, city planners are integrating bicycle infrastructure in urban landscapes. Yet, this infrastructure only promotes cycling according to how well it is sited within a specific city. How to best site bicycle facilities is essential for sustainability planning. We review approaches to assessing and siting new bicycle facilities. Following sustainability science, we argue that active cyclists should be consulted to incorporate users' site-specific knowledge into bicycle infrastructure assessments. We then pilot an approach that surveys cyclists concerning level of stress along routes ridden in St. Louis, MO, USA. Among the active cyclists surveyed (n = 89), we found stress correlates with speed limit, roadway classification, and number of lanes. Although cyclists surveyed in St. Louis prefer roads with bike lanes over roads with sharrows or no infrastructure, the presence of bicycle infrastructure had no correlation with reported levels of stress. The piloted survey and spatial analytic tool are transferable to other localities. For planners, the maps generated by this participant data approach identify high-stress routes as targets of new infrastructure or information to direct cyclists to safer routes. For bicyclists, the maps generated identify low-stress routes for recreation and commuting.

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“…In light of the deep integration between aquatic science and socio-economic-political issues, it is therefore necessary that the scientific community makes the whole society aware of the results of scientific research on these issues and of the need to intensify the study of the mechanisms that underlie the ongoing changes in aquatic ecosystems (Buytaert et al, 2014;Albrecht, 2016;Hall et al, 2016;Jacobs et al, 2016). To help meeting this need, within the 23rd Congress of the Italian Association of Oceanology and Limnology (AIOL; http://www.…”

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Present and future of aquatic sciences: The perspective of AIOL scientific community for a priority roadmap over the next five years

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D’Alelio

2018

Adv Ocean Limnol

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Water issues represent an increasing societal challenge, since the 70% of Planet Earth is covered by water. The intensive use of the hydrosphere is changing the structure and functions of aquatic ecosystems and their ability to produce goods and services that are useful to humans. It is therefore necessary that the scientific community makes citizens aware of the results of scientific research on these issues and informs them about the need to intensify the study of the mechanisms that underlie the ongoing changes in aquatic ecosystems. To help meet this need, within the 23rd Congress of the Italian Association of Oceanology and Limnology (AIOL; http://www.aiol.info/), entitled "Functioning, alteration and recovery of aquatic ecosystems: the aquatic sciences to understand global change and to make the citizens aware of it" (Cagliari, Italy, 26-29 September 2017), all participants, among which some renown experts in the field of aquatic sciences, were invited to give their contribution, via a shared and bottom-up built questionnaire, in assessing a set of actions needed to achieve an adaptive and proactive management of changes that the aquatic sciences are going to face in the next five years. The results of this survey allowed us to identify a set of priorities that funding agencies should include in their economic and financial planning in the next future. Among all, we pinpoint that there is an urgent need in: (i) promoting sustainable food production by exploiting aquatic systems; (ii) diffusing an opportune spatial planning integrating ecosystem-based management approaches; (iii) developing recovery/remediation plans for contaminated sites; iv) promoting conservation of ecosystems by assessing their conservation status, first of all the water/ecosystem quality; (v) fostering the technological development of sustainable and integrated tools and procedures for environmental monitoring; (vi) developing a better forecasting capacity, particularly of extreme events, by implementing long-term research networks; and, ultimately, (vii) supporting a wider society learning processes and a more effective transfer of knowledge from science to society.

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Beyond “buy-in”: designing citizen participation in water planning as research

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 publications

Implementing and evaluating a citizen‐science program to support wildlife management: MI‐MAST

Implementing and evaluating a citizen‐science program to support wildlife management: MI‐MAST

Assessing the Bicycle Network in St. Louis: A PlaceBased User-Centered Approach

Present and future of aquatic sciences: The perspective of AIOL scientific community for a priority roadmap over the next five years

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