This paper updates and builds on 'Modelling with Stakeholders' Voinov and Bousquet, 2010
which demonstrated the importance of, and demand for, stakeholder participation in …

Recreational fisheries surveys are limited in time and place in many countries. This lack of
data limits scientific understanding and sustainable management. Smartphone applications …

Within conservation and ecology, volunteer participation has always been an important
component of research. Within the past two decades, this use of volunteers in research has …

Virtual citizen science (VCS) uses technology like the Internet to give volunteers the chance
to participate in real scientific research. The success of VCS projects has prompted …

The emergence of various types of everyday urban problems poses severe challenges to
the conventional top-down designed urban problem-handling protocols. Social sensing …

The digitalization of human society continues at a relentless rate. However, to develop
modern information technologies, the increasing complexity of the real-world must be …

Expertise-centric citizen science games (ECCSGs) can be powerful tools for crowdsourcing
scientific knowledge production. However, to be effective these games must train their …

The first goal of this chapter is to propose a slight re-framing of citizen science, which will
contextualize the information presented in the rest of the book. The authors propose a …

Monitoring spatiotemporal patterns in marine environments is crucial to ensure a better
understanding of ecosystem functioning and, ultimately, for adequate management and …

The integration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activities into formal
education is encouraged by policy makers to promote engineering and science studies …