Smart Urban Forestry: Is It the Future?

Conceptualising the Link between Citizen Science and Climate Governance: A Systematic Review

“…Three publications focus on the European context, especially delving into EU policy, regulations and research agendas, and their link with the practice of CS [89][90][91]. Among studies with a multifocal approach that collect data in different countries, six are comparative case studies [92][93][94][95][96][97], and two are conceptual articles which include case studies being discussed [98,99]. One interesting feature is that the study area often exceeds the national borders and embraces geographical regions or ecosystems characterised by the presence of relevant natural elements or resources, whose conditions are being impacted by climate change; i.e., the Baltic Sea [78], the Himalayan region [79,80], river basins [81][82][83], groundwater aquifers [84], forests [85,86], coral reef [87] and migratory flyways [88].…”

“…Three publications focus on the European context, especially delving into EU policy, regulations and research agendas, and their link with the practice of CS [89][90][91]. Among studies with a multifocal approach that collect data in different countries, six are comparative case studies [92][93][94][95][96][97], and two are conceptual articles which include case studies being discussed [98,99].…”

“…Moreover, themes of forests [86,106] and oceans [87,107,108] health protection and resilience boost a holistic approach to climate-related health risks which acknowledges the non-separateness of human and non-human communities [89]. [104,109,114,117,120] Food systems governance [89,98,103,104] Disaster management [80,115] Biosecurity risk monitoring [106] Infrastructure assessment [116] Governance of environmental heritage [78] Urban forest governance [96] Conservation 20 (45.45%) [79,[81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88]90,92,93,99,107,108,[121][122][123][124][125] Water governance [81,82,84,85,92,99] Biodiversity conservation [79,…”

“…Whereas CS and participatory research methods, as stated above, can support the rearrangement of governance processes and structures, the reverse relation is equally valid: 20 (45.45%) selected publications stress the enabling role of existing governance frameworks in providing affordances to initiating and shoring up CS projects. In particular, the United Nations blueprint of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [127] has been advanced as a legitimating framework for participatory processes fostering food system change [98] and community governance of coral reefs [87], deepening the scope of action for science with regard to urban sustainability [109], addressing climate action and clean water challenges [120], enhancing the role of smart urban forestry in urban sustainability [96], and mainstreaming information and communication technologies (ICTs) into adaptive decision-making [99].…”

“…Furthermore, community perceptions, concerns [78,91,96] and mental models [96,106], together with different stakeholders' interests, priorities and views [92,112,117], are recognised as essential elements which cannot be ignored by project managers to achieve social acceptability of plans and policies [78,106]. Many publications emphasise the importance of lay knowledge, local cultural worldviews and contextual expertise built through lived experience [79,83,85,110,119,125].…”