Towards benchmarking citizen observatories: Features and functioning of online amateur weather networks

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 193, Issue , 2017, Pages 381-393

  Gharesifard, Mohammad ^a,b   Wehn, Uta ^a   van der Zaag, Pieter ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Citizen observatories; Citizen science; ICT enabled citizen participation; Online amateur weather networks

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ACQUISITION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; INTERNET; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESEARCH METHOD; SENSOR; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

BENCHMARKING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEATHER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; SCIENCE;

BENCHMARKING; COMMUNICATION; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; SCIENCE; WEATHER;

EID: 85013832297     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.02.003     Document Type: Article

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