Reflections on the potential of virtual citizen science platforms to address collective action challenges: Lessons and implications for future research

Leeuwis, C.; Cieslik, Katarzyna; Aarts, M.N.C.; Dewulf, Art; Ludwig, Fulco; Werners, S.E.; Struik, P.C.

doi:10.1016/j.njas.2018.07.008

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“…Just like seasonally occurring shallow landslides, citizen science -based projects are cyclic in nature: annually/seasonally repeated, continuously revising the relevance of the outputs achieved and the usability of the information generated (Leeuwis et al, 2018). As such, citizen science projects go beyond the planned acquisition and processing of data, focusing instead on incremental learning, flexibility and adaptation (Silvertown, 2009).…”

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Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

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“…), it becomes almost futile for a farmer to invest in disease control on his or her own, since the field will continue to become infected by the disease. In such cases, diseases can be seen as a 'public bad', while effective disease control strategies can be regarded as a 'public good' that is only created if sufficient farmers contribute to it (Cieslik et al 2018;Leeuwis et al 2018). In these kinds of situations, it is clearly insufficient to only provide individuals with technical advise on how to prevent and control the disease; even if farmers come to belief that such measures are likely to be effective and develop a positive attitude towards them, they are unlikely to perform them unless they are reasonably sure that their neighbours will take proper action as well.…”

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Rethinking Adoption and Diffusion as a Collective Social Process: Towards an Interactional Perspective

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The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture

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Agricultural development is looked at as a process in which the adoption of innovations plays an important role. In this context, there has been considerable interest in understanding how adoption processes work. This chapter starts from the observation that adoption has been conceptualised in most research and development efforts as a process at the level of individuals and/or individual households, resulting in the dominance of social-psychological modes of thinking. Drawing on case experiences and recent theories of innovation, this paper points towards the critical role that several types of interdependencies play in adoption processes, which leads to the conclusion that in many instances, adoption must be regarded as a collective rather than an individual process. It is therefore important to complement and re-orient our thinking about adoption and resort to more sociological and interactional concepts and explanations. After a discussion of relevant concepts, the chapter concludes with some reflection on how this perspective may inspire a different way of approaching two topical issues in the realm of agricultural innovation: scaling and ICT4Ag.

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“…finance, labor) of managing resistance over time (Ervin and Frisvold 2016). Similarly, lessons from situational studies on banana wilt and potato late blight in Central Africa and Ethiopia demonstrated that the public good features of a disease management strategy depend not only on specific agro-ecological properties of the disease but also on the available technological options and other community-specific social conditions and resources (Damtew et al 2018;Leeuwis et al 2018;McCampbell et al 2018). This has an important implication for the framing of contagious crop diseases, such as late blight, as public bad mainly based on its mobility.…”

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Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

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Syst Pract Action Res

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There has been strong research interest in designing and testing learning approaches for enhancing and sustaining the capacity of communities to manage collective action problems. Broadening the perspective from well-known social learning approaches in natural resource management, this study explores how social learning as a communicative process influences collective action in contagious crop disease management. A series of facilitated discussion and reflection sessions about late blight management created the social learning space for potato farmers in Ethiopia. Communicative utterances of participants in the sessions served as the units of analysis. The study demonstrates how and to what extent social learning, in the form of aligned new knowledge, relations and actions occurred and formed the basis for collective action in the management of late blight.

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Reflections on the potential of virtual citizen science platforms to address collective action challenges: Lessons and implications for future research

Cited by 33 publications

References 45 publications

Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

Building Resilience to Chronic Landslide Hazard Through Citizen Science

Rethinking Adoption and Diffusion as a Collective Social Process: Towards an Interactional Perspective

Governing a Collective Bad: Social Learning in the Management of Crop Diseases

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