The role of science in sustainability transitions: Citizen science, transformative research, and experiences from Samothraki island, Greece

Island Studies Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 115-134

  Petridis, Panos ^a   Fischer Kowalski, Marina ^a   Singh, Simron J ^b   Noll, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Islands; Samothraki; Socioecological systems; Sustainability transitions; Transformative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019225548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17152593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24043/isj.8     Document Type: Article

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