Law and Policy Working Group: Resources
Whether you’re a researcher, community member, lawyer, student or business owner, the resources provided here are foreveryone involved in and/or interested in citizen science and policy. Through these resources, we hope to broaden your understanding of how citizen science can influence law and policy and vice versa. Listed below are key resources of broad relevance and applicability. We plan to provide more resources on specific topics on this page as the working group’s agenda emerges. If you know of additional resources that may be of value to this community, please let us know here: citizenscience@eli.org
Citizen Science Legal Framework
John Holdren, Addressing Societal and Scientific Challenges through Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing
https://tinyurl.com/citsci-holdren2015
Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act (Public Law 114-329) https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ329/PLAW-114publ329.pdf
Understanding Citizen Science & Policy
Eleta, I., Galdon Clavell, G., Righi, V. and Balestrini, M., 2019. The Promise of Participation and Decision-Making Power in Citizen Science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1), p.8. https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10.5334/cstp.171/
National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy. Information to Action: Strengthening EPA Citizen Science Partnerships for Environmental Protection. (2018). https://tinyurl.com/citsci-partnerships
Hecker, S., Haklay, M., Bowser, A., Makuch, Z., Vogel, J. & Bonn, A. CitizenScience: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy. London. (2018). https://tinyurl.com/citsci-innovation
National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT). Environmental Protection Belongs to the Public: A Vision for Citizen Science at EPA. (2016). https://tinyurl.com/citsci-nacept
McElfish J & Pendergrass J. Clearing the Path: Citizen Science & Public Decision Making (2016). https://tinyurl.com/eli-clearingthepath
Smith, B. Agency Liability Stemming from Citizen-Generated Data. Woodrow Wilson Center Policy Memo Series vol. 3. (2014)https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/AgencyLiability_final.pdf
Schade, S., Manzoni-Brusati, M., Tsinaraki, C., Kotsev, A., Fullerton, K., Sgnaolin, R., Spinelli, F. and Mitton, I., Using new data sources for policymaking, EUR 28940 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2017. https://tinyurl.com/jrc-policymaking
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Right to Science in Practice: Exemplars of Government Action.https://tinyurl.com/citsci-righttoscience
Tools for the Citizen Science Community
Harvard Law School Citizen Science Manual. https://tinyurl.com/citsci-manual.
EPA Data Quality Assurance Handbook. https://tinyurl.com/citsci-epaqualityassurance
Federal Crowdsourcing & Citizen Science Toolkit.” https://tinyurl.com/citsci-toolkit
Federal Crowdsourcing & Citizen Science Catalog.” https://tinyurl.com/citsci-catalog
Data Policies for Public Participation in Scientific Research: A Primer. DataONE. (2014) https://tinyurl.com/citsci-datapolicies
Environmental Law Institute. A Citizen’s Guide to Using Federal Environmental Laws to Secure Environmental Justice.(2002). https://tinyurl.com/citsci-envjustice
Scientist & Community Engagement – https://tinyurl.com/citsci-training &- https://thrivingearthexchange.org/
Academic Research & Case Studies
If you’d like to take a deeper dive into how citizen science can influence policy or how policy shapes citizen science efforts, please use the link below to access our library of research articles and case studies.
https://tinyurl.com/citsci-resources