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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, VOL 39
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages 641-665Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-030713-154609
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public engagement in science; coupled systems; interdisciplinary research; socioecological systems; coupled human and natural systems; big data
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- Direct For Education and Human Resources
- Division Of Research On Learning [0917487] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Citizen science has proliferated in the last decade, becoming a critical form of public engagement in science and an increasingly important research tool for the study of large-scale patterns in nature. Although citizen science is already interdisciplinary, it has untapped potential to build capacity for transformative research on coupled human and natural systems. New tools have begun to collect paired ecological and social data from the same individual; this allows for detailed examination of feedbacks at the level of individuals and potentially provides much-needed data for agent-based modeling. With the ongoing professionalization of citizen science, the field can benefit from integrating a coupled systems perspective, including a broadening of the social science perspectives considered. This can lead to new schema and platforms to increase support for large-scale research on coupled natural and human systems.
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