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.
Chapter OneThe Promises and Problems of Global Forest Visualization
Chapter TwoForest Maps: The Datafication of Forests From a Media Theory Perspective
Chapter ThreeZooming Into Google Gaia Maps: From Globalization to Glocalization of Forests
Chapter FourForests as Stories: Storyworld Networks as Alternatives to Google Gaia
Chapter FiveCase Study: Global Forest Watch
Chapter SixInsights From Developers and Users of GFW
Chapter SevenFrom Green Marbles to Storyworlds
This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.
This book project 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 grid withl³º
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