The Role of the Citizen/Volunteer in Protecting the Northern Commons

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Tileston, Peg
Conference:	Joining the Northern Commons: Lessons for the World, Lessons from the World
Location:	Anchorage, Alaska
Conf. Date:	August 17-21, 2003
Date:	2003
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5388
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	North America
Subject(s):	IASC volunteerism citizen participatory management
Abstract:	"By engaging citizens to provide monitoring, the number of eyes, ears and minds can be greatly expanded. This is already occurring in hundreds of locales. School classes, clubs, and individuals have been trained in techniques for a variety of monitoring processes with very positive results. The important next step is to reduce the barriers between scientist and the citizen monitor, to provide the training and support for increasing the scope and the number of citizen monitors, and to convince governments that it is the wise and proper thing to do. The citizen/volunteer can and should play a very important and expanding role in protection of the Northern Commons whose well being is so vital to us all."

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