Growing Bioregioning Through Community Science aims to chart how communities in Tayside can help monitor landscape change through community science practices.
Community Science is different to the more commonly used term of citizen science Citizen science is usually started by researchers outside the community, while community science is led by the community itself. Community members decide whether to work with scientists. Community science is also shaped by local social and ecological factors, shared beliefs, a strong sense of place, and self-organisation, which helps the community learn and adapt over time.
This project has been collecting and documenting information on current community science practices in Tayside and investigating new ways of encouraging local people to use community science as a landscape monitoring tool.
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Contact bioregioningtayside@gmail.com for more information.