Citizen as Sensors' Commitment in Urban Public Action: Case Study on Urban Air Pollution

Based on a case study in Rennes, the article presents how a group of urban public actors re-uses methods and technology from citizen sciences to raise the urban air quality issue in the public debate. The project gives a group of inhabitants the opportunity to follow air quality training and proceed...

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Published inInternational journal of e-planning research Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 42 - 59
Main Authors l'Her, Gwendoline, Servières, Myriam, Siret, Daniel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.10.2019
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Subjects
Actors
Actresses
Air pollution
Air quality
Analysis
Architecture, space management
Case studies
Citizen participation
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information management
Outdoor air quality
Science
Sensors
France
Air quality measurement
Metrology
Sciences participatives
Citizen Science
Qualité de l'air
Métrologie
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Summary:Based on a case study in Rennes, the article presents how a group of urban public actors re-uses methods and technology from citizen sciences to raise the urban air quality issue in the public debate. The project gives a group of inhabitants the opportunity to follow air quality training and proceed PM2.5µm measurements. The authors question the impact of the ongoing hybridisation between citizen science and urban public action on participants' commitment. The authors present how the use of PM2.5-sensors during 11 weeks led to a disengagement phenomenon, even if the authors observe a strong participation to workshops. These results come from an interdisciplinary methodology using observations, interviews, and data analyses.
ISSN:2160-9918
2160-9926
DOI:10.4018/IJEPR.2019100103