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Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen. When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is thought about and seen. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to influence reality that this book addresses: today's images might become the blueprint for tomorrow's realities. »Image Politics of Climate Change« combines a wide interdisciplinary range of perspectives and questions, treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies. The author's specializations include both visual practice and theory: in the fields of climate sciences, computer graphics, art, curating, art history and visual studies, communication and cultural science, environmental and science & technology studies. The close interlinking of these viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate visualization. »Eine Publikation, die mit informierten und detaillierten Beiträgen der Komplexität des Themas bestens Rechnung trägt. Die Beiträge zeichnen sich alle durch ihre hohe Qualität und trotz des Detailreichtums durch ein hohes Theorieniveau aus.« Angela Krewani, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2015) »Die im Band versammelten 16 Beiträge [machen] eindrucksvoll den Facettenreichtum des Gegenstandes deutlich.« Mike S. Schäfer, M&K, 63/2 (2015)

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"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 the Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform which was created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. This dislocation of the idea of the forest from its literal roots in the ground has generated problems for forest visualization efforts designed to empower local communities. This book takes a critical humanistic approach to this problem, combining methods from the fields of rhetoric and media studies to suggest solutions to these problems for designers and users of platforms like the Global Forest Watch. To explain why global views of forests can be disempowering, the book relies on biopolitical and rhetorical theories of panopticism and how these views unfold a different violence on different regions of the earth in relation to colonial history. Using this theoretical framework, the book explains the historical process by which forests came to be classified, quantified and mapped on a global scale. Interviews with end-users of global forest visualization platforms reveal if and how these platforms support local action. Lastly, the book provides rhetorical solutions to articulate global and local views of forests without reducing one view to the other. Those solutions involve looking to forests themselves for clues about how to generate more broadly effective and resilient visualizations. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of forest studies, climate change, science communication, visualization studies, environmental communication and environmental conservation."

Forest mapping --- Forests and forestry --- Geographic information systems

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This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.

Forest mapping. --- Forests and forestry. --- Geographic information systems. --- Global Forest Watch (Organization)