Publication: Citizen social science in spatial planning – potentials for resilience in a complex unpredictable world
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2023
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AESOP
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This paper reflects on the potential of citizen science in spatial planning when facing complex issues. It presents a framework that builds upon existing typologies and methods of citizen science and how it can be conceptualised as an adaptive tool in spatial planning to ensure active participatory engagement in the face of uncertainty and promote evolutionary resilience. Planners struggle to integrate citizens in their quest for certainty and evidence based planning centred around technical expertise. Many studies have recently explored the plurality of citizen science and identified multiple benefits for policy making such as engagement of citizens, its possibility to be initiated by any societal actor, as well as information flow and comprehension between involved actors. This paper investigates the potential benefits of citizen science in spatial planning for the input of new dynamic and situational perspectives on complex issues.
Keywords: citizen science, participatory planning, complex adaptive systems, evolutionary resilience
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Book of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023
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