Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
Summary of the session on Digital Representation of Place at the RGS-IBG conference in Cardiff. The session aim was to address the following challenge: “Over the last few decades, our cities have...
View ArticlePapers from PPGIS 2017 meeting: state of the art and examples from Poland and...
About a year ago, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, hosted the PPGIS 2017 workshop (here are my notes from the first day and the second day). Today, four papers from the workshop were...
View ArticleSocial Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen
During the 22 to 29 October, I visited Shanghai & Shenzhen together with Michael Norton (CIVA), who organised the visit, and Liz Barry (Public Lab). This was a packed tour, with two all-day...
View ArticleUCL Sustainability week – a global university that is also Sommers Town local...
UCL is marking its sustainability week between 29th October and 4th November. As part of the activities to mark the Green UCL initiative. I was interviewed to this video, together with other...
View ArticleNew publication: Participatory citizen science
I’ve mentioned in the previous posts about the introduction and conclusions chapters in the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy” and the chapter about citizen science...
View ArticleCitizen Science 2019: Environmental Justice and Community Science: A Social...
The session was opened by Na’Taki Osborne-Jelks, Agnes Scott College (CSA board) – the environmental justice movement have used methods of community science we need to include in the tent of citizen...
View ArticleCitizen Science 2019: Citizen Science in Action: A Tale of Four Advocates Who...
Jessica Culpepper (Public Justice), Larry Baldwin (Crystal Coast Waterkeeper), Matt Helper (Appalachian Voices), Michael Krochta (Bark). Jessica – there can be a disconnect between the work on the...
View ArticleNew paper: Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal...
The Urban Zoo project focused on the issues of transfer of disease from animals to humans, in particular in the context of Nairobi, Kenya. This is mostly a medical study, but through the involvement of...
View ArticleRecording of a GEO6 Webinar – data and value knowledge creation
This is the recording of a webinar that was dedicated to chapters 3 and 25 of the Global Environment Outlook. It covers different sources of data, including citizen science and indigenous knowledge....
View ArticlePublished: Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Back in October 2018, I reported on the workshop at the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA) about non-traditional data approaches and the Sustainable Development Goals. The...
View ArticleInvestigating the potential of citizen science for effective radon...
This is a recording of a seminar from early September, which was part of the a session that organised by the Social science and Humanities in ionising radiation Research (SHARE) in their RICOMET 2020...
View ArticleCitizen Science & Post-Normal Science zones
The Post-Normal Science 5 symposium moved, like many other scientific meetings this year, to an online meeting. If you haven’t come across the term, it is worth looking into – post-normal science (PNS)...
View ArticleCSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science
This is the recording from earlier this month from a meeting of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) meeting of the law and policy working group which was dedicated to Aarhus convention and its...
View ArticleCitizen Science & Post-Normal Science zones
The Post-Normal Science 5 symposium moved, like many other scientific meetings this year, to an online meeting. If you haven’t come across the term, it is worth looking into – post-normal science (PNS)...
View ArticleCSA law and policy group: the Aarhus Convention and Citizen Science
This is the recording from earlier this month from a meeting of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) meeting of the law and policy working group which was dedicated to Aarhus convention and its...
View ArticleConference notes: Engaging Citizen Science – Aarhus. Keynote Heidi Ballard
The Engaging Citizen Science conference is organised by the Danish citizen science network and took place at Aarhus University (25-26 April). The conference started with a keynote by Heidi Ballard, UC...
View ArticleEngaging Citizen Science – Dick Kasperowski keynote: scientific and civic...
Dick talk – scientific and civic engagement in citizen science: time to talk about societal effects? Talking from a Swedish perspective to explore if the issues are generic. There are some disturbing...
View ArticleThematic session on access to information (UNECE Aarhus convention – working...
These notes are from a session which is part of the working group meeting of the parties of the Aarhus Convention on 22 June 2022. It’s only part of the meeting, which the full details of can be found...
View ArticleRoundtable on environmental defenders – Aarhus convention ExMOP
Notes from the roundtable on environmental defenders. I have not tried to capture the exact words of the presenters. This is part of the Aarhus ExMOP from 24 June 2022. The chair of the session, Teresa...
View ArticleNotes from thematic session on the promotion of the principles of the...
Information from the session that is stated at https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/WGP-26_Programme_PPIF_session.pdf “The thematic session on the promotion of the principles of the Aarhus...
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