Global Forest Visualization
from green marbles to storyworlds
$52.00
- Paperback
106 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2025
Summary
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Global Forest Visualization and its Discontents
This book examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.
Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the gri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032454016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032454016 |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability |
| Author: | Lynda Olman, Birgit Schneider |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 106 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
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About The Author
Lynda Olman
Lynda Olman is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She is the author of Scientists as Prophets (2013) and the editor of Global Rhetorics of Science (2023), as well as other books on the rhetoric of science. Her current work focuses on improving risk visualizations to support robust decision-making on environmental and climatic issues.
Birgit Schneider is Professor of Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments at the Potsdam University Institute for Arts and Media, Germany. Her current research concentrates on the visual communication of climate since 1800 and a genealogy of climate change visualization between science, aesthetics, and politics.
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