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| ENVT3028-1 | Citizen science
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| Duration : | 18h Th, 18h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | François Melard, Pierre M. Stassart |
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| Coordinator : | Pierre M. Stassart |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| 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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Learning outcomes of the course :
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| There are no prerequisites |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Elaborations on the basis of scientific litteratures and professional and amateur practioners. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Conrad, C. C., & Hilchey, K. G. (2011). A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring: issues and opportunities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessement(176), 273-291. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written report. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| 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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| Article de référence pour le cours |
Le cadre conceptuel utilisé pour servir de baser à la discussion et à la comparaison des différentes études de cas est issu de l'article suivant :
Conrad, C. C., & Hilchey, K. G. (2011). A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring: issues and opportunities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessement(176), 273-291. |
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