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Article is extensively long. I commented on the talk page with another user who suggested shortening the article. I also asked what topics could be included in with the law section as it seemed out of place on the "Citizen Science" page where it was located.

Public participation

Richardson, Liz. “Engaging the Public in Policy Research: Are Community Researchers the Answer?” Politics and Governance, vol. 2, no. 1, 2014, pp. 32–44.

M. James C. Crabbe. “From Citizen Science to Policy Development on the Coral Reefs of Jamaica.” International Journal of Zoology, vol. 2012, 2012, pp. International Journal of Zoology, 01 January 2012, Vol.2012.

Hollow, Roetman, Walter, and Daniels. "Citizen Science for Policy Development: The Case of Koala Management in South Australia." Environmental Science and Policy 47 (2015): 126-36.

Chapman, Colin and Crona Hodges. "Can Citizen Science Seriously Contribute to Policy Development?: A Decision Maker's View." Analyzing the Role of Citizen Science in Modern Research. IGI Global, 2017. 246-261.

Pidgeon, Nick, et al. “Creating a National Citizen Engagement Process for Energy Policy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 Suppl 4, 2014, pp. 13606–13.

Wooden, Ruth. “The Principles of Public Engagement: At the Nexus of Science, Public Policy Influence, and Citizen Education.” Social Research, vol. 73, no. 3, 2006, pp. 1057–1063.

Section of Article to Be Edited

Environment and sustainable development
In recent years public participation has become to be seen as a vital part of addressing environmental problems and bringing about sustainable development. In this context the limits of solely relying on technocratic bureaucratic monopoly of decision making, and it is argued that public participation allows governments to adopt policies and enact laws that are relevant to communities and take into account their needs.

Public participation is recognised as an environmental principle, see Environmental Principles and Policies, and has been enshrined in the Rio Declaration.

Public participation in environmental governance
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Citizen Science
Liz Richardson, a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics and an editor for the journal Local Government Studies, has long advocated for the greater inclusion of non-professional scientists in policy research. She emphasizes that it is academia’s responsibly to facilitate the “democratization of policy research” noting several benefits of having citizens involved in not just the contribution of data, but also the framing and development of research itself. She notes that the biggest disadvantage of citizen science is the reliance on using citizens as only contributing members of the scientific endeavors and pushes for a more community-based participatory research method which would include laypeople in the entirety of the research process while emphasizing the scientific method popularized by citizen science.

In their 2017 article, Colin Chapman and Crona Hodges outline what they believe to be the key to success in applying citizen science to policy development: data which is “suitable, robust, and of a known quality for evidence-based policy making”. They identified several barriers to applying citizen science to policy development including a lack of suitability between the data collected and the policy in question and skepticism regarding the data collected by non-experts.