Safecast premises. Tokyo. Japan - April 2019
Early results of the research on these questions: 'The Formosa Case: A Step Forward on the Acceptance of Citizen-Collected Evidence in Environmental Litigation?'
How can the use of civic evidence in environmental litigation be legitimized on the basis of existing and new rights?
Early results of the research on these questions:
Citizen Sensing from a Legal Standpoint: Legitimizing the Practice under the Aarhus Framework
Could Citizen Sensing be conceived also as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) promoting environmental mediation and avoiding the conflict's escalation to courts?
Early results of the research on these questions: Striving for Good Environmental Information: Civic Sentinels of Oil Pollution in the South of the North
The envisaged opportunities of our idea are many, ranging from a closer connection of the affected people to environmental litigation, to a wider, more diverse and inclusive availability of evidence on critical environmental issues, to the possibility of even mitigating the conflict.
I - Citizen Sensing as a source of evidence in courts.
II - Towards a right to contribute to environmental information.
III - Mediating environmental conflicts through Citizen Sensing.
Drawing lessons for Europe, through comparison and
lesson-learning from successful and failed U.S. cases.
1 - The Formosa case of citizen scientists that brought to court a petrochemical company based in part on volunteered evidence (the U.S)
2 - The AnalyzeBasilicata case of civic monitoring environmental health issues associated with oil extraction (Italy)
Several more under the radar, such as the civic water monitoring around the Lambro river, Lombardy (Italy); the air and noise monitoring around Malpensa Airport and the city of Milan (Italy); the civic observatory on flood risk on the Brenta Bacchiglione river basin, Veneto (Italy); the spill of plastic matter from a water treatment plant from Capaccio (Italy) to the Mediterranean; the case from Greenpeace Belgium and CurieuzeNeuzen on air quality data used in courts.
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SensJus in June has been very busy for a series of events organized or co-curated at the intersection of Art & Science around the JRC site in Ispra and Milan:
Conference website: https://conferences.au.dk/citsci2022/
Le projet SensJus a lancé une courte bande dessinée relatant l'histoire d'une sentinelle civique, qui raconte le combat de beaucoup et une leçon d'espoir.
SensJus recently launched an 'experiment'. As our research often addresses participants who may have a low literacy level, we realized that standard consent forms were not meaningful for the aim of achieving an aware participation and informed consent. Therefore, we realized, together with an artist, forms that combine visuals and text. With the...