Global Forest Visualization: From Green Marbles to Storyworlds

by Lynda Olman and Birgit Schneider

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 within which forests become commodities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032454008
• ISBN13: 9781032454009
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"