ISBN:
9781496232786
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nature of data
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmental sciences Data processing
;
Technology Environmental aspects
;
Infrastructure (Economics) Data processing
;
Environmental policy
;
Political ecology
;
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems
;
COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Modeling & Design
;
Environmental policy
;
Environmental sciences ; Data processing
;
Infrastructure (Economics) ; Data processing
;
Political ecology
;
Technology ; Environmental aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction: Ifrastructuring Environmental Data -- Part 1. Sensors, Servers, and Structures -- 1. Data's Metropolis -- 2. An Emerging Satellite Ecosystem and the Changing Political Economy of Remote Sensing -- 3. Smart Earth -- 4. Data, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Nature in the Pacific Northwest -- Part 2. Civic Science and Community-Driven Data -- 5. Environmental Sensing Infrastructures and Just Good Enough Data -- 6. Collaborative Modeling as Sociotechnical Data Infrastructure in Rural Zimbabwe -- 7. Citizen Scientists and Conservation in the Anthropocene -- 8. Data Infrastructures, Indigenous Knowledge, and Environmental Observing in the Arctic -- 9. Digital Infrastructure and the Affective Nature of Value in Belize -- 10. Infrastructuring Environmental Data Justice -- Part 3. Governing Data, Infrastructuring Land and Resources -- 11. "A Poverty of Data"? -- 12. Illicit Digital Environments -- 13. Data Gaps -- 14. Data Structures, Indigenous Ontologies, and Hydropower in the U.S. Northwest -- 15. How Forest Became Data -- Conclusion
Abstract:
"By synthesizing scholarly work at the intersection of political ecology, digital geography, and science and technology studies, "The Nature of Data" analyzes how new digital technologies affect environments and their control"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
