Social licence through citizen science: A tool for marine conservation

Abstract

1. Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Methods 3. Results Discussion 4. Conclusion References Meaningful public engagement with science and research is essential to improving knowledge about the environment and supporting sustainable use of ecosystems and natural resources. Transparent and culturally-appropriate natural resource management is imperative (Christie et al. 2017) and the publics role in decision-making and data collection is increasingly recognised (Hecker et al. 2018), supported by a rise in the number of citizen science projects in recent years (Chandler et al. 2017;Pocock et al. 2017), including marine-based projects (Cigliano and Ballard 2017). In parallel, social licence has become an important theme for development, pa ...