| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource title from digital title page; (viewed on October 4, 2022) |
| Subject |
Environmental sciences -- Data processing
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Technology -- Environmental aspects
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Data processing
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Environmental policy.
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Political ecology.
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environmental policy.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.
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COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Modeling & Design.
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COMPUTERS / Data Modeling & Design
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Environmental policy
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Environmental sciences -- Data processing
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Data processing
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Political ecology
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Technology -- Environmental aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldstein, Jenny (Geographer), editor.
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Nost, Eric, editor.
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Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2021056892 |
| ISBN |
9781496217158 |
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149623278X |
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1496217152 |
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9781496232786 |
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