Capturing and communicating impact of citizen science for policy: A storytelling approach

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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Wehn, Uta¹  Ajates, Raquel²  Fraisl, Dilek^3,5  Gharesifard, Mohammad¹  Gold, Margaret⁴  Hager, Gerid³  Oliver, Jessie L.⁶  See, Linda³  Shanley, Lea A.⁷  Ferri, Michele⁸  Howitt, Camden⁹  Monego, Martina⁸  Pfeiffer, Ellen¹  Wood, Chris¹⁰ 

[1] IHE Delft Inst Water Educ, Westvest 7, NL-2611 AX Delft, Netherlands

[2] Univ Dundee, Social Digital, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland

[3] Int Inst Appl Syst Anal IIASA, Schlosspl 1, Laxenburg, Austria

[4] Museum Nat Kunde Berlin, European Citizen Sci Assoc ECSA, Invalidenstr 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany

[5] Univ Nat Resources & Life Sci Vienna BOKU, Gregor Mendel Str 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria

[6] Univ Sydney, Australian Citizen Sci Assoc ACSA, City Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia

[7] Univ Wisconsin, Nelson Inst, Madison, WI USA

[8] Altoadriat Water Author Autorita Bacino Distrettu, Cannaregio 4314, I-30121 Venice, Italy

[9] Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

[10] Cornell Univ, Cornell Lab Ornithol, Ithaca, NY USA

关键词: Impact assessment;    Storytelling;    Citizen science;    Citizen observatories;    Policy;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113082

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

In response to the need for approaches to understand how citizen science is currently influencing environmental policy and associated decision making, we devised the Citizen Science Impact StoryTelling Approach (CSISTA). We iteratively designed instruments to be used as tools primarily for citizen science practitioners seeking to understand or communicate policy impacts. We then trialled the CSISTA and associated instruments on four exemplary citizen science initiatives, using different forms of inquiry and collaboration with respective initiative leaders. In this paper, we present CSISTA, with details of the steps for implementing inquiry and storytelling instruments. Additionally, we reflect on insights gained and challenges encountered implementing the approach. Overall, we found the versatility and structure of CSISTA as a process with multiple guiding instruments useful. We envision the approach being helpful, particularly with regards to: 1) gaining an understanding of a citizen science initiative's policy and decision-making impacts; 2) creating short policy impact stories to communicate such impacts to broader audiences; or 3) fulfilling both goals to understand and communicate policy impacts with a unified approach. We encourage others to explore, adapt, and improve the approach. Additionally, we hope that explorations of CSISTA will foster broader discussions on how to understand and strengthen interactions between citizen science practitioners, policy makers, and decision makers at large, whether at local, national, or international scales.

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