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Integrating public participation in knowledge generation processes: Evidence from citizen science initiatives in Mexico
Environmental Science & Policy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.08.007
Claudia María Monzón Alvarado , Arantxa Zamora Rendon , Andrea del Socorro Vázquez Pérez

Abstract Citizen science has gained momentum in the past two decades as a participatory research approach. However, it is necessary to analyze when and how this participation takes place within the knowledge generation process. We analyzed 36 cases of citizen science in Mexico to describe the relationship between the stages and levels of public participation in knowledge generation and the geographic, temporal, and thematic scope of the initiatives. We also characterized the participants and initiatives’ sources of financing. We found that 21 initiatives called themselves citizen science, the rest were described as participatory monitoring or community monitoring. Furthermore, 55 % of the cases were contributory projects, in which citizens participated exclusively in the process of data collection. Only 17 % of cases were co-created, where the public participated along with scientists throughout the process of knowledge generation: from framing of the problems, research design, data collection, and analysis, to the dissemination of the results. In this article, we highlight that citizen science can achieve its greatest transformative potential when public participation takes place throughout the multiple stages of the knowledge generation process.

中文翻译:

将公众参与纳入知识生成过程:来自墨西哥公民科学倡议的证据

摘要 作为一种参与式研究方法,公民科学在过去二十年中获得了发展势头。然而,有必要分析这种参与在知识生成过程中何时以及如何发生。我们分析了墨西哥的 36 个公民科学案例,以描述公众参与知识生成的阶段和水平与举措的地理、时间和主题范围之间的关系。我们还描述了参与者和倡议的资金来源。我们发现 21 项举措自称为公民科学,其余的则被描述为参与式监测或社区监测。此外,55% 的案例是贡献项目,其中公民完全参与了数据收集过程。只有 17% 的案例是共同创建的,公众与科学家一起参与整个知识生成过程:从问题的框架、研究设计、数据收集和分析,到结果的传播。在本文中,我们强调,当公众参与贯穿知识生成过程的多个阶段时,公民科学可以发挥其最大的变革潜力。
更新日期:2020-12-01
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