Results for: Law and Policy Working Group


Citizen Science and Environmental Agencies

Posted on: January 4, 2021

by Kasantha Moodley, Manager, Environmental Law Institute Innovation Lab, for the Law and Policy Working Group. Environmental agencies are increasingly transforming their approach to citizen science, from viewing it as a […]

Supporting Environmental Democracy and the Aarhus Convention

Posted on: October 7, 2020

By Muki Haklay, Lea Shanley, Anna Berti Suman, Sven Schade, Dorte Riemenschneider, Nora Salas Seoane, Rosa Arias, and Simone Reufenacht for the Law and Policy Working Group. This year the UN […]

Science by the People

Posted on: June 8, 2020

Post by George Wyeth, cochair of the Law and Policy Working Group. The potential for science to be used by ordinary citizens as a tool for social change is both empowering […]

Webinar: Balancing Citizen Science Data Collection Needs and Privacy Protections

Posted on: January 9, 2020

Date: Friday, January 24, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM ESTRegister here: http://bit.ly/CSAwebinarPrivacy  The Law and Policy Working Group will be presenting another webinar in their ongoing series. This webinar […]

CSA Webinar: Approaching Informed Consent in Citizen Science: Legal and Ethical Issues

Posted on: November 4, 2019

Presented by the Law and Policy Working Group and Ethics Working Group Date: Friday, November 22, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM EST How do we know when citizen science […]

Law & Policy Working Group Hosts Webinar to Launch Question Submission Tool

Posted on: October 29, 2019

By Shaun Goho, George Wyeth, and Lea Shanley, CSA Law and Policy Working Group Citizen science practitioners can run into a variety of questions about the laws that affect how they […]

Toward Citizen Science Policy Outcomes

Posted on: May 28, 2019

By: Kasantha Moodley and George Wyeth of the Environmental Law Institute for the Law and Policy Working Group  In ways that did not exist even ten years ago, everyday people are […]