Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship

S Shephard, E von Essen, T Gieser, CJ List… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Proposals to downsize the human population or protect large areas of the planet imply that
biodiversity conservation is possible only when humans are excluded, but effective …

Exploring the landscape of automated species identification apps: Development, promise, and user appraisal

MXA Truong, R Van der Wal - BioScience, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Two decades ago, Gaston and O'Neill (2004) deliberated on why automated species
identification had not become widely employed. We no longer have to wonder: This AI …

Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography's technology from ontology to ontogenesis

TP Keating - Progress in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Technologies have been theorised to understand their powers to produce spacetimes–
notably through Bernard Stiegler's reading of technics as constitutive of human ontology …

[HTML][HTML] Towards new ecologies of automation: Robotics and the re-engineering of nature

A Lockhart, S Marvin, A While - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate/ecological breakdown and automation are two defining challenges of the current
era, yet there is little research on their conjunctural intersection. Across experimental …

[HTML][HTML] The environmentality of digital acoustic monitoring: Emerging formations of spatial power in forests

M Ritts, T Simlai, J Gabrys - Political Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
The rise of digital acoustic monitoring is having transformative effects within forest
conservation geographies and practices. By featuring divergent acoustic signals (a gunshot …

Glitches in the technonatural present

A Searle, J Turnbull… - Dialogues in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined
elements of the 'technonatural present', which pose varied challenges and openings for the …

The invisible city: The mundane biogeographies of urban microbial ecologies

A Bradshaw - Geo: Geography and Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
More‐than‐human, multispecies and animal geographic accounts of the city have tended to
focus on large, charismatic and wild organisms, to the detriment of spatially invisible other …

Actually existing smart forests: A proposal for pluralizing eco-technical worlds

J Gabrys, M Westerlaken… - … and Planning F, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The “actually existing smart city” is a familiar figure and concept within smart environments
research. Usually,“actually existing” analyses challenge the often-hyperbolic proposals for …

Institutional Quality in Green and Digital Transition of EU Regions–A Recovery and Resilience Analysis

A Bănică, R Ţigănaşu, P Nijkamp… - Global Challenges, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper assesses the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) of EU member
states and regions to uncover commonalities and differences between green and digital …

[HTML][HTML] Digital natures: New ontologies, new politics?

A Luque-Ayala, R Machen, E Nost - Digital Geography and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Digital tools and practices are transforming societal relationships with non-human worlds—
whether through smartphone apps that city dwellers use to navigate urban forests, robotic …