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The nature of data : infrastructures, environments, politics / edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, Jenny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Environmental aspects.
- Technology.
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Data processing.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Environmental sciences--Data processing.
- Environmental sciences.
- Political ecology.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- 2022.
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 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
- Source Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496232786
- 149623278X
- OCLC:
- 1338298370
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