Abstract
•Aim: This chapter introduces citizen science as a means for co-monitoring and co-managing impact of ecosystems and inland waters and what comes into play when implementing it.•Main concepts covered: characteristics and different forms of citizen science, community-based monitoring and co-management.•Main methods covered: different dimensions of the practicalities and challenges of involving citizens and communities in measuring the status of ecosystems, monitoring the effects of policy responses, setting targets for limits of acceptable change or ambitions for restoration. As citizen science requires the involvement of people, paying attention to their motivations, skills and resources, constraints and expectations provides the basis for sound and successful implementation.•Conclusion/Outlook: Citizen science is a fast expanding field of study in itself and its professionalization has implications for the impacts of citizen science initiatives for the health of ecosystems and inland waters as well as individual citizens, communities and society at large.
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