Engaging publics: Biodiversity data collection and the geographies of citizen science

Geography Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 611-621

  Toogood, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CITIZENSHIP; DATA QUALITY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MONITORING; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84883545962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12067     Document Type: Article

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