Global Forest Visualization - From 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.

List of contents

Chapter One-The Promises and Problems of Global Forest Visualization
Chapter Two-Forest Maps: The Datafication of Forests From a Media Theory Perspective
Chapter Three-Zooming Into Google Gaia Maps: From Globalization to Glocalization of Forests
Chapter Four-Forests as Stories: Storyworld Networks as Alternatives to Google Gaia
Chapter Five-Case Study: Global Forest Watch
Chapter Six-Insights From Developers and Users of GFW
Chapter Seven-From Green Marbles to Storyworlds

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lynda Olman, Lynda Schneider Olman, Schneider Birgit
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032454016
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245401-6
• No. of pages: 106
• Series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, History, Media Studies, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Humanities, Communication Studies, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Science / Environmental Science, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Agricultural science, Human Geography, Development Studies, Forestry and silviculture, global;forest;forestry;green