'Community monitoring of the #environment is rapidly increasing.
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A new study (...) calls for government decision-makers to step up efforts to provide #policysupport for this vital activity on the ground.'

#Havingimpact #CitizenScience

It's Official: #CitizenScience goes Global! Citizen Science Global Partnership held its first General Assembly alongside its formal launch last week. If you had missed this amazing #citsci milestone, you can read about it in our journal:
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Or see this Special Collection on #CommunityBasedMonitoring in the journal BioScience (2021). It is open access.

Thank you to our many collaborators and supporters, including #CAPARDUS UArctic and The Framework Project. @NORDECO-Int
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Like to hear more? See this new book: Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic (Univ. Alaska Press). NORDECO (Nordic Agency for Development & Ecology)
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Convivial (literally “living with”) Conservation focused at socially and ecologically just conservation is another promising new conservation approach, where #CommunityBasedMonitoring could play an important role.

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Nature-based Solutions is a promising new approach, aimed at contributing to solve biodiversity, climate and development challenges. #CommunityBasedMonitoring could play an important role by systematically involving community members and their knowledge.

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Tech developments and digital platforms are important but do not substitute for #CommunityBasedMonitoring . For many communities, access to resources is central to the livelihoods. Engagement in resource management, inc. monitoring, is critical. #CBD

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An increasing number of community monitors are harassed, mainly in countries with authoritarian regimes.
Source: Danielsen et al. 2022. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47. Data obtained from Global Witness (basemap from Esri).

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Studies across many environmental and socio-political contexts suggest that results from #CommunityBasedMonitoring are not inferior or less reliable than scientist-executed monitoring
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There are also other benefits of #CommunityBasedMonitoring ( #CBM )
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Decision-making from published environmental monitoring systems
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Fisherman Per Ole Frederiksen from Attu in #Greenland receives the #NordicCouncil Environment Prize for Attu community’s impressive work with #CommunityBasedMonitoring and #BiodiversityConservation . @Nordenen @Norden_Climate
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Participation boosts action. Effectiveness of community-based and scientist-executed monitoring methods in generating natural resource management interventions in Philippine protected areas. academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

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Huge amounts of environmental data are compiled. Could the data be further used for conservation action ?
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Take a look at these six models of local stakeholder engagement, ranging from no interaction between scientists and communities (Model 1) to continual engagement (Model 6).

Source: Danielsen et al. 2022. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47

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There is a spectrum of monitoring approaches with varying levels of involvement of scientists and stakeholders – from remote sensing approaches by scientists without community members - to “talks around the fire” by resource users
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I’ve been fortunate to work with #CitizenScience and #CommunityScience in #BiodiversityConservation for many years at NORDECO (Nordic Agency for Development & Ecology).
#CommunityBasedMonitoring provides amazing opportunities for #SustainableDevelopment and conservation of the #environment . #monitoring

#CommunityBasedMonitoring and #CitizenScience - tools for #SustainableDevelopment in the #Arctic Session IASC

Call for abstracts 👉 assw.info/programme/scie…. Deadline 2 Oct!

Join us in Vienna, 17-21 Feb 2023 to discuss The Arctic in the Anthropocene!

A new paper: Nature Reviews Methods Premiers guide for citizen science in environmental and natural sciences. Blog post on the story behind the paper and the value of learning from crowdsourcing, while supporting early career researchers. povesham.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/nat…