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Digital Participatory Biodiversity Science book cover

1st Edition

Digital Participatory Biodiversity Science

Edited By Lorna Heaton, Florian Charvolin Copyright 2026
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge
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We live in an age where biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and the natural environment is increasingly under stress. Digital technologies can play a pivotal role in addressing these challenges. This book draws on several case studies of digital participatory science initiatives to reflectively analyze changes in biodiversity knowledge, expertise  and infrastructures. It... Read more

1. Introduction: digital participatory biodiversity science

Lorna Heaton and Florian Charvolin

 

2. Chains of Participation in Producing Biodiversity Infrastructures: Digital Reconfigurations of Scientific Work

Lorna Heaton

 

3. Faune France: Amateur Naturalists’ Attachment and Indebtedness in a Citizen Science Biodiversity Database

Florian Charvolin

 

4. Sharing epistemic power: digitally mediated wolf monitoring in Finland

Taru Peltola and Outi Ratamäki

 

5. How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science

Beckett Sterner and Steve Elliott

Biography

Lorna Heaton is a professor of communication at the Univesité de Montréal, Canada. She is interested in collaborative work practices and the performativity of communications technologies. Her research focuses on the organisational aspects of collaborative work, particularly the interplay between collaborative digital technologies and their uses.

Florian Charvolin is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Max Weber Centre, Lyon, France. His research centres on environmental monitoring of biodiversity through citizen science and air pollution through the local use of measuring technologies.

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