scholarly journals Citizen Science, Experts, and Expertise.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-385
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jordan ◽  
Amanda Sorensen ◽  
Steven Gray
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Groups

Interest in citizen science is growing among both scientists and community groups who are interested in creating natural resource management projects. Such projects have the potential to result in social learning, which can further reinforce resource stewardship. Data to study this learning process, however, remain scant. Using transcripts from four different natural resource management projects, we use discourse analysis to investigate the discursive practice between project scientists and community members in the development of models that were used to test ideas and subsequently modified with citizen collected data. We found that only a portion of the discussion focused on knowledge building and that only experts provided challenges to ideas being discussed. Subsequently to these challenges, however, a greater proportion of knowledge co-creation occurred.

scholarly journals BioCollect - A modern cloud application for standards-base field data recording

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25439
Author(s):  
Peter Brenton
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Seed Collection

Many organisations running citizen science projects don’t have access to or the knowledge or means to develop databases and apps for their projects. Some are also concerned about long-term data management and also how to make the data that they collect accessible and impactful in terms of scientific research, policy and management outcomes. To solve these issues, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) has developed BioCollect. BioCollect is a sophisticated, yet simple to use tool which has been built in collaboration with hundreds of real users who are actively involved in field data capture. It has been developed to support the needs of scientists, ecologists, citizen scientists and natural resource managers in the field-collection and management of biodiversity, ecological and natural resource management (NRM) data. BioCollect is a cloud-based facility hosted by the ALA and also includes associated mobile apps for offline data collection in the field. BioCollect provides form-based structured data collection for: Ad-hoc survey-based records; Method-based systematic structured surveys; and Activity-based projects such as natural resource management intervention projects (eg. revegetation, site restoration, seed collection, weed and pest management, etc.). This session will cover how BioCollect is being used for citizen science in Australia and some of the features of the tool.

scholarly journals Measuring Social Learning in Participatory Approaches to Natural Resource Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merel van der Wal ◽  
Joop De Kraker ◽  
Astrid Offermans ◽  
Carolien Kroeze ◽  
Paul A. Kirschner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Participatory Approaches

scholarly journals A Tale of Two Kewangs: A comparative study of traditional institutions and their effect on conservation in Maluku

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Karno Batiran ◽  
Ishak Salim
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Traditional Institution ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Historically Situated

This study explains how kewang, a traditional institution that deals with social affairs and natural resource management, maintains traditional ecological knowledge and practices in Maluku. This study focuses on two comparative villages (negeri): Haruku and South Buano. The study adopts a historically situated new institutionalism approach to analyzing the dynamic developments of kewang and how it affects community members in the context of conservation and natural resource management of the petuanan customary areas of the two negeri. By examining institutional change including history, ideology, organization and authority of kewang with other institutional forms such as soa, government, church, and NGOs the study shows the path-dependence of the two respective kewangs. In Haruku, the kewang has long stayed intact because the institution is still practiced as a cultural principle, maintaining itself through the tradition-based leadership succession mechanisms and by continuing to carry out its functions, as well as pursuing innovations within kewang education for future generations. In South Buano however, due to the long absence of a kewang, efforts at revival show the strong influence of rational choice thinking principles, dependent on the formal authority of the negeri government. The study concludes that historical junctures shape the role and authority of kewangs in performing natural resource functions, and which can have longnstanding generational impacts on conservation possibilities. Meanwhile, kewang also rely on both its continued endogenous acceptance among local community members, and depend on its relations with other key institutions in society.  

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