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Citizen Science and Water Quality Monitoring: Evidence from Dublin and Beyond

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Clean Water and Sanitation

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Citizen science is the engagement of citizens in the collection of scientific data, either online or in the field. The projects in which the citizen scientists take part can be either locally designed or can form part of a research project by either academic or statutory or voluntary monitoring bodies. The data is often collated and analyzed by researchers to answer research questions. Citizen science harnesses the knowledge and enthusiasm of local communities and enables them to collect data and collaborate in the monitoring and analysis of local environmental features and can help shape solutions to environmental problems at both local and regional levels.

Community-based monitoring is where communities self-organize to monitor local environments in an effort to increase or safeguard environmental quality or to encourage accountability of monitoring by official agencies. It involves citizen scientists, who work on a bottom-up basis to inform decisions and policy, from an...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of History and Geography, Dublin City University, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

    Susan Hegarty

  2. DCU Water Institute, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland

    Susan Hegarty, Asma Slaimi, Noel O’Connor & Fiona Regan

  3. Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Asma Slaimi & Noel O’Connor

  4. School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland

    Fiona Regan

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Hegarty, S., Slaimi, A., O’Connor, N., Regan, F. (2020). Citizen Science and Water Quality Monitoring: Evidence from Dublin and Beyond. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_131-1

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