Iwitness pollution map: Crowdsourcing petrochemical accident research

New Solutions

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 521-533

  Bera, Risha ^a   Hrybyk, Anna ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana Bucket Brigade   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Disaster response; Oil; Petrochemical

Indexed keywords

OIL;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; CITIZEN SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; DISASTER RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OIL SPILL; PETROCHEMICAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DISASTER RESPONSE; OIL; PETROCHEMICAL;

CHEMICAL HAZARD RELEASE; CROWDSOURCING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MAPS AS TOPIC; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84907016975     PISSN: 10482911     EISSN: 15413772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/NS.23.3.f     Document Type: Article

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