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Study programmes 2013-2014Last update : 13/05/2014
ENVT3028-1  Citizen science

Duration :  18h Th, 18h Pr
Number of credits :  
Master in sciences and environment management 3
Master en sciences et gestion de l'environnement, à finalité spécialisée en interfaces sociétés-environnements, 2nd year3
Lecturer :  François Melard, Pierre M. Stassart
Coordinator :  Pierre M. Stassart
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French language
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Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
This course on Citizen science proceeds from a reflection on old and new experiments on the place citizens from inside the scientific activity to activism.
The course deals with several issues:
  • a presentation of the controversy on the place of the public in the emergence of new forms of knowledge and actions between sciences and societies.
  • an introduction on the emergence and the development of alternative practices to more conventional scientific activity (Community-based-Science); and more precisely on distributed monitoring practices (Community-based-Monitoring), as in the fields of noise and olfactive pollutions, biodiversity, or electromagnetic fields management).
This seminar will be the occasion to meet experts or witnesses of concrete experiments of monitoring of local environments and their articulation to regional, national or international public policies.
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Contacts :  
François Mélard - f.melard@ulg.ac.be Tél.: 063/230 901
Pierre Stassart - p.stassart@ulg.ac.be Tél.: 063/230 901


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