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Aggregate indicator title

Management and Policy

Description

Direct actions, decision-support products, and policy impacts from citizen-science projects

Domain

Science & Technology

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Secondary data

Source of data

(Publicly available) project documentations

Time series

No

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal

Unit of analysis

Project

Analytical level (logic model)

Outcome

Links with indicators in other domains

Governance

Data collection method(s)

Review of project of documentation and publications; analysis of project tools

Data collection item(s)

Not indicated, but can be derived from the following definitions:

  • Existence of legal rulings or regulation enforcement based on project data and findings
  • Existence of decisions based on project data and findings (e.g., for policy or management)
  • Existence of models based on project data that simulate or predict complex phenomena
Indicator building
  • Regulatory action (Y/N)
  • Decision support (Y/N)
  • Forecasting/models (Y/N)
  • Blogs (Y/N)
Availability of data

Medium-high

Feasibility

Minimal resources required

Comments/caveats
Source of indicator definition

Wiggins et al. (2018)