The Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing
The Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing

Author: Berti Suman, Anna

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1800882602

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‘Citizen sensing’, the practice in which grassroots actors use sensor technology for environmental monitoring, is increasingly entering the debate around environmental risk governance. This groundbreaking book explores the potential for citizen sensing to concretely influence the governance of environmental risks to public health by shaping policy responses implemented by competent institutions.

The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance
The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance

Author: Sindico, Francesco

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1800889372

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This cutting-edge book considers the functional inseparability of risk and innovation within the context of environmental law and governance. Analysing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ innovation, the book argues that approaches to socio-ecological risk require innovation in order for society and the environment to become more resilient.

From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion

Author: Benjamin J. Richardson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-12-25

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1800881096

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Across the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment – critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.

How to Do Things with Sensors
How to Do Things with Sensors

Author: Jennifer Gabrys

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1452962162

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An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Transport in Human Scale Cities
Transport in Human Scale Cities

Author: Mladenović, Miloš N.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1800370512

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This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the city and within various organisations responsible for cities.

Civic Monitoring for Environmental Law Enforcement
Civic Monitoring for Environmental Law Enforcement

Author: Anna Berti Suman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-07-05

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1035328704

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book presents a thought-provoking inquiry demonstrating how civic environmental monitoring can support law enforcement. It provides an in-depth analysis of applicable legal frameworks and conventions such as the Aarhus Convention, with an enlightening discussion on the civic right to contribute environmental information.

The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology
The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

Author: Victoria Canning

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-08-09

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1802622004

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Collectively, The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology explores the contemporary terrain around new and emergent issues and forms of activism, and offers cutting edge conceptualizations of the methodological and practical applications of activist engagement, solidarity, and resistance.

The Science of Citizen Science
The Science of Citizen Science

Author: Katrin Vohland

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 3030582787

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This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists to citizens and from policy makers to environmental organisations have been involved in its practice. In addition, many scientists also study citizen science as a research approach and as a way for science and society to interact and collaborate. This book provides a representation of the practices as well as scientific and societal outcomes in different disciplines. It reflects the contribution of citizen science to societal development, education, or innovation and provides and overview of the field of actors as well as on tools and guidelines. It serves as an introduction for anyone who wants to get involved in and learn more about the science of citizen science.

Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research
Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research

Author: Ceccaroni, Luigi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1522509631

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As the need for sustainable development practices around the world continues to grow, it has become imperative for citizens to become actively engaged in the global transition. By evaluating data collected from various global programs, researchers are able to identify strategies and challenges in implementing civic engagement initiatives. Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research focuses on analyzing data on current initiatives and best practices in citizen engagement and education programs across various disciplines. Highlighting emergent research and application techniques within citizen science initiatives, this publication appeals to academicians, researchers, policy makers, government officials, technology developers, advanced-level students and program developers interested in launching or improving citizen science programs across the globe.

Personalized Health and Precision Medicine in Practice
Personalized Health and Precision Medicine in Practice

Author: Luca Chiapperino

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2024-02-26

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 2832545300

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So-called personalized health and precision medicine consist of a plethora of distinct endeavors. Ranging from pharmacogenomics to big data medicine, these endeavors are set out to tailor treatment and prevention to different combinations of data on the biological, behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health. Currently reaching the trial of implementation across a diverse range of local and national contexts, these innovations call for a thorough empirical scrutiny of the normative, practical, and technical reconfigurations that they engender. Personalized/precision approaches to medicine demand substantive, normative work that consists in reforming social contracts in healthcare, and in ensuring a consistent commitment to change from both institutional actors and citizens.