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Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana

Stephanie M. Olen ()
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Stephanie M. Olen: Nature Sustainability

Nature Sustainability, 2022, vol. 5, issue 10, 814-815

Abstract: Citizen science efforts are instrumental in monitoring our progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Dilek Fraisl, Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and Omar Seidu, Director of Social and Demographic Statistics and the SDGs Coordinator at the Ghana Statistical Service, discuss how Ghana successfully integrated citizen science data into its official monitoring of marine plastic debris.

Date: 2022
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