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

• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Environmental aspects; Infrastructure (Economics) - Data processing; Environmental sciences - Data processing; Political ecology; Environmental policy
• Classificazione: COM062000TEC036000
• Persona (resp. second.): NostEric; GoldsteinJenny (Geographer)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The nature of data
• ISBN: 1-4962-3278-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795994403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II