Explore civic engagement in climate change issues through interactive data visualisations mapping social innovation and business-academia-society cooperation in addressing water scarcity.
The study is part of the Erasmus+ project Acting4Water that aims to address water scarcity through academia-business collaboration, advanced technologies and citizen science.
An international collection of 24 initiatives driving
sustainable water management through civic engagement
The study collected data and conducted an international landscape analysis of existing civic engaging practices that address water scarcity. The study identifies several key dimensions, including levels of participation, cooperation models and types of technology, exploring patterns, correlations, and emerging new directions.
A spreadsheet with 20 categorization fields was created, incorporating established typologies (e.g., citizen participation by Shirk et al.) alongside project-specific classification schemes. Project partners identified and categorized 24 related initiatives. The initial spreadsheet was processed through cleaning, transformation into machine-actionable format, pivoting, and enrichment with calculated fields. Three main quantitative data analysis approaches were applied: geographical mapping, aggregations, and cross-category filtering to derive insights. Data visualization worksheets were developed in Tableau and published with interactive elements, including tooltips and legends.
Access below the annex with a brief introduction on the avtivity's workfklow and references, and the published report with the collection of citizen-driven actions against water scarcity, including data visualsations and bibliography. Please cite as:
Zourou, K., Ziku, M., Oikonomou, S., Fragkiadaki, C, Terzis, I. (2024). Collection of citizen-driven actions against water scarcity. Acting4Water consortium.
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Spatial overview of initiatives and key dimensions
Insights across key dimensions
Cross-Category Analysis in Key Dimensions
Project links and short descriptions of the 24 Water Management Actions
Methodology, data processing and analysis