After the cap: Risk assessment, citizen science, and disaster recovery

摘要: I used the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to examine how crowdsourcing is as a new form of citizen science that provides real time assessments health-related exposures. Assessing risks an spill, or disasters more generally, challenge complicated by situated nature knowledge-generation results in differential perceptions and responses. These processes are critical case British Petroleum Gulf Coast since identification promises have ramifications for multiple social actors, well health status long-term resilience communities area. Qualitative interviews, ethnographic observations, video data were collected with local movement organizations, grassroots groups, workers, fisherman, residents, scientists, government representatives within five months spill. Findings suggest reflecting transition from lay mapping online gathering system allows broader range participation detection impacts. Outcomes this research promise help demonstrate theorize relates risk assessment affects disaster recovery response.