A review of studies on participatory early warning systems (P-EWS): Pathways to support citizen science initiatives

This paper provides a social science framework to determine the elements of how citizen science and participatory early warning systems can be bridged.

For doing so, it will conduct a systematic mapping for examining the literature on citizen science and disaster management, in particular, those focused on social science and participatory approaches for early warning systems.

This review showed that only 3,43% (14 of 408) articles were related to citizen science and P-EWS, which indeed indicate that much effort is needed to disseminate what is citizen science and how it can be mainstreamed in DRM field. Furthermore, the proposed framework can contribute by enhancing stakeholders’ reflexivity about EWS.