Citizen Science as an Approach for Overcoming Insufficient Monitoring and Inadequate Stakeholder Buy-in in Adaptive Management: Criteria and Evidence

Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 493-506

  Aceves Bueno, Eréndira ^a   Adeleye, Adeyemi S ^a   Bradley, Darcy ^a   Tyler Brandt, W ^a   Callery, Patrick ^a   Feraud, Marina ^a   Garner, Kendra L ^a   Gentry, Rebecca ^a   Huang, Yuxiong ^a   McCullough, Ian ^a   Pearlman, Isaac ^a   Sutherland, Sara A ^a   Wilkinson, Whitney ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Zink, Trevor ^a   Anderson, Sarah E ^a   Tague, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive management; citizen science; community based monitoring; environmental science and management; natural resource management; Public Participation in Scientific Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939977135     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9842-4     Document Type: Article

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