Environmental Citizen Science – POSTnote

Environmental citizen science traditionally involves members of the public submitting sightings of wildlife to NGOs or record centres, but emerging technologies have recently broadened its use to all kinds of environmental data.  POSTnote number 476 from August 2014 summarises different types of citizen science projects, policy-relevant applications and the benefits and challenges of volunteer collected data.

Read the POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) Note

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