保护的地理空间转折中的前景和危险
Jocelyne Shimin Sze1, Laura Aileen Sauls2
1Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientales (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
概括
大型地理空间数据转化为保护风险,忽视了各种价值观和观点. 仔细对大地理空间数据进行上下文化对于实现社会公正和有效的保护成果至关重要.
科学领域:
- 保护科学 保护科学
- 地理空间数据分析.
- 生物多样性信息学 生物多样性信息学
背景情况:
- 保护日益依赖大数据和数字技术,特别是空间数据,以确定保护优先事项.
- 这一转变被称为大地理空间数据转变,导致了众多工具和全球绘图方法.
- 然而,这些方法可能与以权利为基础和包容性保护相冲突,该保护重视多样化的观点.
研究的目的:
- 批判性地检查数据集,方法和假设,以支持生物多样性保护的全球绘图.
- 突出大地理空间数据在代表世界复杂性的潜在局限性.
- 倡导使用大地理空间数据在保护中的更细微和上下文化方法.
主要方法:
- 文献审查和保护和大地理空间数据当前实践的综合.
- 对全球地图对保护方法的影响进行批判性分析.
- 讨论需要将遥感数据置于政治经济和社会文化背景中的必要性.
主要成果:
- 优先考虑大型地理空间数据可能会导致狭的观点,忽视多元价值和多样化的视角.
- 尽管有开放获取倡议,全球绘图工作往往由全球北方研究人员主导.
- 有风险忽视地图信息的部分性质,并限制各种世界表示.
结论:
- 环保主义者必须超越不批判地要求更多数据.
- 大型地理空间数据需要在特定的政治经济和社会文化环境中进行仔细的背景化.
- 一个社会公正和生态有效的保护领域需要对大地理空间数据采取位置和批判的方法.
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