TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ghermandi, Andrea
A1  - Langemeyer, Johannes
A1  - Van Berkel, Derek
A1  - Calcagni, Fulvia
A1  - Depietri, Yaella
A1  - Egarter Vigl, Lukas
A1  - Fox, Nathan
A1  - Havinga, Ilan
A1  - Jäger, Hieronymus
A1  - Kaiser, Nina N.
A1  - Karasov, Oleksandr
A1  - McPhearson, Timon
A1  - Podschun, Simone
A1  - Ruiz-Frau, Ana
A1  - Sinclair, Michael
A1  - Venohr, Markus
A1  - Wood, Spencer A.
T1  - Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use
T2  - One Earth
N2  - Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have threatened this nascent field. Here, we review the literature on the use of social media data in environmental and sustainability research. We find that they can play a novel and irreplaceable role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by allowing a nuanced understanding of human-nature interactions at scale, observing the dynamics of social-ecological change, and investigating the co-construction of nature values. We reveal threats to data access and highlight scientific responsibility to address trade-offs between research transparency and privacy protection, while promoting inclusivity. This contributes to a wider societal debate of social media data for sustainability science and for the common good.
KW  - big data
KW  - environmental sustainability
KW  - passive crowdsourcing
KW  - social media
KW  - social-ecological systems
KW  - Big Data
KW  - Social Media
KW  - Nachhaltigkeit
KW  - Crowdsourcing
KW  - Sozialökologie
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://hst.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/989
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:tr5-9890
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 236
EP  - 250
PB  - Elsevier
ER  -