Gerid Hager

Furman University, USA Trained as an environmental geographer, Dr Haywood's scholarship focuses on public engagement in and citizen science, environmental education and learning, sense of place, animal studies, and conservation.

Managing land for agriculture has shaped civilization, but it has also led to biodiversity decline and other problems that today threaten the future of humanity. The EU Horizon 2020 FRAMEwork project is supporting a transition to biodiversity sensitive farming by uniting farmer clusters and citizen observatories to protect sensitive ecosystems while ensuring food security. Managing and working land for food has laid the foundations for modern human civilization.

Abstract Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non-professional participants contribute to data collection to advance scientific research.