After the Cap: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Disaster Recovery

I used the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to examine how crowdsourcing is used as a new form of citizen science that provides real time assessments of health-related exposures. Assessing risks of an oil spill, or disasters more generally, is a challenge complicated by the situated nature of knowle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sabrina McCormick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss4/art31/