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Beskrivelse

It is well documented across the natural sciences that ecosystems of different climates are under great pressure and that biodiversity worldwide is in decline, with species dying off with increasing frequency than before the arrival of humans 60 million years ago. Humans and wildlife coexist in shared habitats that can no longer be seen as merely cultural nor natural. Biology and the social and human sciences alone are no longer able to examine, know, and respond to shared and hybrid ecosystems, new forms of interdisciplinarity and knowledge production are necessary.

In the last decades, digital technologies such as remote satellite sensing, GPS tracking devices, drones, and computer modelling have grown increasingly important to the ways in which natural scientists and Euro-American publics come to know about and relate to wildlife species, and human and social scientists have taken an increasing critical interest in these technologies to analyse their ethical affordances and political effects. Far less, however, have productively explored how such technologies offer new platforms of collaboration across the sciences, and across the sciences and wider publics.

This project explores pathways towards new forms of collaboration between environmental social sciences and humanities (SSH), biological and ecological sciences engaged with biodiversity crises and the promotion of sustainable societal development, and developers of technologies of remote sensing and artificial intelligence employed in the monitoring of wildlife and biodiversity.

We take our point of departure in the ethnographically based assumption that digital technologies are changing human-animal-landscape relationships in scientific as much as vernacular contexts, and that the wider policy-related and managerial implications of these technologically mediated ways of knowing and relating to wildlife – how they are changing wildlife management policies and practices – remain curiously underexplored. Moreover, answering calls from within the environmental humanities to appropriate digital ecological methods, this project ventures into this task, exploring how the digital knowledge practices and technologies of ecology may be relevant to human and social-scientific scholars as more-than-human tools and methods.

Research questions:
1) How do digital technologies transform human-environment relations and the ways in which wildlife, ecologies, and ecosystem dynamics are known?
2) In what ways have digital and computational technologies transformed the fields of biology and ecology and practices of biodiversity monitoring and ecosystems management?
3) How – and what – can SSH researchers learn from the digital knowledge pracices of ecologists, and how might remote sensing technologies be used in SSH research?
4) Can digital sensing technologies offer new platforms for cross-disciplinary collaboration? And how can tech companies learn from cross-disciplinary research in the development of technologies for monitoring?
AkronymEKoDA
StatusIgangværende
Effektiv start/slut dato01/07/202431/08/2025

Samarbejdspartnere

  • Robotto Aps

FN's verdensmål

I 2015 blev FN-landene enige om 17 verdensmål til at bekæmpe fattigdom, beskytte planeten og sikre velstand for alle. Dette projekt bidrager til følgende verdensmål:

  • Verdensmål 11 - Bæredygtige byer og lokalsamfund
  • Verdensmål 15 - Livet på land