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Citizen-Based Air Quality Monitoring: The Impact on Individual Citizen Scientists and How to Leverage the Benefits to Affect Whole Regions

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|Mar 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.245 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 15, 2019
Accepted on: Sep 22, 2019
Published on: Mar 3, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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