The Nature of Data

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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. Alvarez León
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 Levenda and Zbigniew Grabowski
Part 2. Civic Science and Community-Driven Data
5. Environmental Sensing Infrastructures and Just Good Enough Data
Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard
6. Collaborative Modeling as Sociotechnical Data Infrastructure in Rural Zimbabwe
M. V. Eitzel, Jon Solera, K. B. Wilson, Abraham Mawere Ndlovu, Emmanuel Mhike Hove, Daniel Ndlovu, Abraham Changarara, Alice Ndlovu, Kleber Neves, Adnomore Chirindira, Oluwasola E. Omoju, Aaron C. Fisher, and André 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

Jenny Goldstein is an assistant professor of global development at Cornell University. Eric Nost is an assistant professor of geography, environment, and geomatics at the University of Guelph.