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Environmental Science

The Epistemology of Citizen-Generated Data in Environmental Monitoring

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In biodiversity monitoring, citizen scientists have contributed over 100 million observations to global databases, yet many scientific institutions still treat these data as 'anecdotal' compared to professional measurements.

Why this is interesting

When ordinary people collect environmental data streams—from rainfall to air quality—does that data become trustworthy knowledge? And who gets to decide?