The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities

DW Walker, M Smigaj, M Tani - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Citizen science is proliferating in the water sciences with increasing public involvement in
monitoring water resources, climate variables, water quality, and in mapping and modeling …

Engagement and social impact in tech-based citizen science initiatives for achieving the SDGs: a systematic literature review with a perspective on complex thinking

J Sanabria-Z, B Alfaro-Ponce, OI González Peña… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent years have witnessed significant achievements and technological advances in
citizen science (CS) projects; nevertheless, significant global challenges are present. Proof …

Using mobile phone data for emergency management: a systematic literature review

Y Wang, J Li, X Zhao, G Feng, X Luo - Information Systems Frontiers, 2020 - Springer
Emergency management (EM) has always been a concern of people from all walks of life
due to the devastating impacts emergencies can have. The global outbreak of COVID-19 in …

Constraining landslide timing in a data-scarce context: from recent to very old processes in the tropical environment of the North Tanganyika-Kivu Rift region

O Dewitte, A Dille, A Depicker, D Kubwimana… - Landslides, 2021 - Springer
Understanding when landslides occur and how they evolve is fundamental to grasp the
dynamics of the landscapes and anticipate the dangers they can offer up. However …

Building resilience to chronic landslide hazard through citizen science

K Cieslik, P Shakya, M Uprety, A Dewulf… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Landslides disrupt livelihoods, cause loss of human lives and damages to property and
infrastructure. In the case of Nepal, the destructive impact of landslides has been steadily …

[HTML][HTML] Timing landslide and flash flood events from SAR satellite: a regionally applicable methodology illustrated in African cloud-covered tropical environments

AAJ Deijns, O Dewitte, W Thiery… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Landslides and flash floods are geomorphic hazards (GHs) that often co-occur and interact.
They generally occur very quickly, leading to catastrophic socioeconomic impacts …

Invited perspectives: Building sustainable and resilient communities–recommended actions for natural hazard scientists

JC Gill, FE Taylor, MJ Duncan… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
Reducing disaster risk is critical to securing the ambitions of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), and natural hazard scientists make a key contribution to achieving this aim …

The role of citizen science mobile apps in facilitating a contemporary digital agora

GG Hognogi, M Meltzer, F Alexandrescu… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
The advancements in digital technologies, especially for mobile apps, enabled simplified
data collection methods. Consequently, through Citizen Science, numerous opportunities …

An overview of geoinformatics state-of-the-art techniques for landslide monitoring and mapping

V Yordanov, L Biagi, XQ Truong… - … Archives of the …, 2021 - isprs-archives.copernicus.org
Natural hazards such as landslides, whether they are driven by meteorologic or seismic
processes, are constantly shaping Earth's surface. In large percentage of the slope failures …

Foundations of indigenous knowledge on disasters due to natural hazards: lessons from the outlook on floods among the Bayira of the Rwenzori region

B Bwambale, M Muhumuza, TT Kahigwa… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The role of indigenous knowledge in increasing context specificity and exposing blind spots
in scientific understanding is widely evidenced in disaster studies. This paper aims to …