Community-Based Monitoring Initiatives of Water and Environment: Evaluation of Establishment Dynamics and Results

ISBN-13: 9780367674014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Mohammad Gharesifard

Opis

Citizen participation in water and environmental management via community-based monitoring has been praised for the potential to facilitate better decision making. This research contributes to advancing both conceptual and empirical understanding of these initiatives.

Spis treści

Introduction,  Literature review and conceptual framework,  Methodology,  Results and discussion of the Dutch case study: Grip op Water Altena,  Results and discussion of the Kenyan case study: Maasai Mara Citizen Observatory,  Cross case analysis,  Conclusions,  References,  Annexes.

O autorze

Mohammad Gharesifard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Hydroinformatics and Socio-Technical Innovation, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. He has a mixed socio-technical background in Water Resources Management and more than 12 years of combined experience in industry and academia. His work experience in industry includes more than seven years of consultancy and project management work in water and sanitation projects. Since 2014 he has been conducting research in the context of a number of EU-FP7 and Horizon 2020 research & innovation projects, including WeSenseIt, Ground Truth 2.0, WeObserve and MICS. Mohammad is interested in studying social, institutional and political aspects of water management, drivers and barriers for stakeholder participation in Citizen Science projects, and factors that affect the establishment, functioning and outcomes of Citizen Science initiatives.