Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-153-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-153-2017
Research article
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09 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2017

Practitioners' viewpoints on citizen science in water management: a case study in Dutch regional water resource management

Ellen Minkman, Maarten van der Sanden, and Martine Rutten

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The Dutch water authorities face a water awareness gap among the general public, and consider citizen science a possible solution. Practitioners working at these authorities have doubts about citizen motivation and data quality. This systematic study on practitioner’s viewpoints aims to aid the adoption of citizen science by water authorities. Based on structured interviews with 33 practitioners around 48 statements on citizen science, we identified three distinctive viewpoints.