Sara Kåll-Fröjdö
Maria Hofman-Bergholm
Lena Enlund
We live in a rapidly changing world. Monitoring and inventorying the changes and implications of it tends to be quite resource intensive for research institutions. A tool that is more frequently used for this kind of monitoring is citizen science, meaning community members contribute by gathering information through different kinds of activities. Citizen science is also often mentioned in the relatively new concept of regenerative tourism. So, what does citizen science mean and what could the potential use within the tourism sector be? In this article we explain the term briefly and explore several examples of citizen science online services and applications in Finland.
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