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ProfessorWouterBuytaert

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1329w.buytaert Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

 
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Location

 

403ASkempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Paul:2017:10.1002/wat2.1262,
author = {Paul, JD and Buytaert, W and Allen, S and Ballesteros-Canovas, JA and Bhusal, J and Cieslik, K and Clark, J and Dugar, S and Hannah, DM and Stoffel, M and Dewulf, A and Dhital, MR and Liu, W and Nayaval, JL and Neupane, B and Schiller, A and Smith, PJ and Supper, R},
doi = {10.1002/wat2.1262},
journal = {Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water},
title = {Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1262},
volume = {5},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In disaster risk management (DRM), an emerging shift has been noted from broad-scale, top-down assessments toward more participatory, community-based, bottom-up approaches. Arguably, nonscientist local stakeholders have always played an important role in knowledge risk management and resilience building within a hydrological context, such as flood response and drought alleviation. However, rapidly developing information and communication technologies such as the Internet, smartphones, and social media have already demonstrated their sizeable potential to make knowledge creation more multidirectional, decentralized, diverse, and inclusive. Combined with technologies for robust and low-cost sensor networks, a ‘citizen science’ approach has recently emerged as a promising direction in the provision of extensive, real-time information for risk management. Such projects work best when there is community buy-in, when their purpose(s) are clearly defined at the outset, and when the motivations and skillsets of all participants and stakeholders are well understood. They have great potential to enhance knowledge creation, not only for data collection, but also for analysis or interpretation. In addition, they can serve as a means of educating and empowering communities and stakeholders that are bypassed by more traditional knowledge generation processes. Here, we review the state-of-the-art of citizen science within the context of hydrological risk reduction and resilience building. Particularly when embedded within a polycentric approach toward risk governance, we argue that citizen science could complement more traditional knowledge generation practices, and also enhance innovation, adaptation, multidirectional information provision, risk management, and local resilience building.
AU  - Paul,JD
AU  - Buytaert,W
AU  - Allen,S
AU  - Ballesteros-Canovas,JA
AU  - Bhusal,J
AU  - Cieslik,K
AU  - Clark,J
AU  - Dugar,S
AU  - Hannah,DM
AU  - Stoffel,M
AU  - Dewulf,A
AU  - Dhital,MR
AU  - Liu,W
AU  - Nayaval,JL
AU  - Neupane,B
AU  - Schiller,A
AU  - Smith,PJ
AU  - Supper,R
DO  - 10.1002/wat2.1262
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2049-1948
TI  - Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building
T2  - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1262
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/51274
VL  - 5
ER  -
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