A conceptual approach to a citizens' observatory-supporting community-based environmental governance

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Hai Ying ^a   Kobernus, Mike ^a   Broday, David ^b   Bartonova, Alena ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Citizens' Observatory; Environmental governance; Environmental monitoring; Public participation; Top down and bottom up approach

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

AIR POLLUTION; CITIZEN OBSERVATORY PROGRAM; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; REVIEW; SENSOR; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PROCEDURES;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;

EID: 84928663437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-107     Document Type: Review

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