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How Certain is Good Enough? Managing Data Quality and Uncertainty in Ordinal Citizen Science Data Sets for Evidence-Based Policies on Fresh Water Cover

How Certain is Good Enough? Managing Data Quality and Uncertainty in Ordinal Citizen Science Data Sets for Evidence-Based Policies on Fresh Water

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 8 (2023): Issue 1
By: Jacek Stankiewicz,  Ariane König,  Karl Pickar and  Stefan Weiss  
Open Access
|Jun 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.592 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 3, 2022
Accepted on: Apr 24, 2023
Published on: Jun 27, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Social-ecological systems,
Adaptive Governance,
Water quality,
Monitoring,
Uncertainty

© 2023 Jacek Stankiewicz, Ariane König, Karl Pickar, Stefan Weiss, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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