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The nature of data, infrastructures, environments, politics, edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost

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The nature of data, infrastructures, environments, politics, edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (page 309) and index

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

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non fiction

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The nature of data

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1269618963

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edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost

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infrastructures, environments, politics

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Infrastructuring Environmental Data / Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost -- Part 1. Sensors, Servers, and Structures. 1. Data's Metropolis: The Physical Footprints of Data Circulation and Modern Finance / Graham Pickren -- 2. An Emerging Satellite Ecosystem and the Changing Political Economy of Remote Sensing / Luis F. Alvarex Leon -- 3. Smart Earth: Environmental Governance in a Wired World / Karen Bakker and Max Ritts -- 4. Data, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Nature in the Pacific Northwest / Anthony Levanda and Zbigniew Grabowski -- Part 2. Civic Science and Community-Driven Data. 5. Environmental Modeling as Sociotechnical Data Infrastructure in Rural Zimbabwe / M. V. Eitzel, Jon Solera, K. B. Wilson, Abraham Mawere Ndlovu, Emmauel Mhike Hove, Daniel Ndlovu, Abraham Changarara, Alice Ndlovu, Kleber Neves, Adnomore Chirindira, Oluwasola E. Omoju, Aaron C. Fisher, and Andre Veski -- 7. Citizen Scientists and Conservation in the Anthropocene: From Monitoring to Making Coral / Irus Braverman -- 8. Data Infrastructures, Indigenous Knowledge, and Environmental Observing in the Arctic / Noor Johnson, Colleen Strawhacker, and Peter Pulsifer -- 9. Digital Infrastructure and the Affective Nature of Value in Belize / Patrick Gallagher -- 10. Infrastructuring Environmental Data Justice / Dawn Walker, Eric Nost, Aaron Lemelin, Rebecca Lave, Lindsey Dillon, and Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) -- Part 3. Governing Data, Infrastructuring Land and Resources. 11. "A Poverty of Data"? Exporting the Digital Revolution to Farmers in the Global South / Madeleine Fairbairn and Zenia Kish -- 12. Illicit Digital Environments: Monitoring and Surveilling Environmental Crime in Southeast Asia / Hilary O. Faxon and Jenny Goldstein -- 13. Data Gaps: Penguin Science and Petrostate Formation in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) / James J. A. Blair -- 14. Data Structures, Indigenous Ontologies, and Hydropower in the U.S. Northwest / Corrine Armistead -- 15. How Forest Became Data: The Remaking of Ground-Truth in Indonesia / Cindy Lin -- Conclusion: Toward a Political Ecology of Data / Rebecca Lave, Eric Nost, and Jenny Goldstein

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