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Unlocking Environmental Narratives
Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions through Computational Text Analysis
Taschenbuch von Ross S. Purves
Sprache: Englisch

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Understanding the role of humans in environmental change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Environmental narratives - written texts with a focus on the environment - offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings. We take advantage of two key opportunities for their computational analysis: massive growth in the availability of digitised contemporary and historical sources, and parallel advances in the computational analysis of natural language. We open by introducing interdisciplinary research questions related to the environment and amenable to analysis through written sources. The reader is then introduced to potential collections of narratives including newspapers, travel diaries, policy documents, scientific proposals and even fiction. We demonstrate the application of a range of approaches to analysing natural language computationally, introducing key ideas through worked examples, and providing access to the sources analysed and accompanying code. The second part of the book is centred around case studies, each applying computational analysis to some aspect of environmental narrative. Themes include the use of language to describe narratives about glaciers, urban gentrification, diversity and writing about nature and ways in which locations are conceptualised and described in nature writing. We close by reviewing the approaches taken, and presenting an interdisciplinary research agenda for future work. The book is designed to be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers, and set out in a way that it can be used as an accompanying text for graduate level courses in, for example, geography, environmental history or the digital humanities.
Understanding the role of humans in environmental change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Environmental narratives - written texts with a focus on the environment - offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings. We take advantage of two key opportunities for their computational analysis: massive growth in the availability of digitised contemporary and historical sources, and parallel advances in the computational analysis of natural language. We open by introducing interdisciplinary research questions related to the environment and amenable to analysis through written sources. The reader is then introduced to potential collections of narratives including newspapers, travel diaries, policy documents, scientific proposals and even fiction. We demonstrate the application of a range of approaches to analysing natural language computationally, introducing key ideas through worked examples, and providing access to the sources analysed and accompanying code. The second part of the book is centred around case studies, each applying computational analysis to some aspect of environmental narrative. Themes include the use of language to describe narratives about glaciers, urban gentrification, diversity and writing about nature and ways in which locations are conceptualised and described in nature writing. We close by reviewing the approaches taken, and presenting an interdisciplinary research agenda for future work. The book is designed to be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers, and set out in a way that it can be used as an accompanying text for graduate level courses in, for example, geography, environmental history or the digital humanities.
Über den Autor
Ross Purves is a professor of Geographic Information Science at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich. His research aims to address societally relevant research questions, with the fundamental aim of making theoretical, thematic and methodological contributions to Geographic Information Science. He is particularly interested in developing methods and answering questions through the use of unstructured information, often in the form of text.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Geografie
Genre: Geowissenschaften
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781911529569
ISBN-10: 1911529560
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Purves, Ross S.
Hersteller: Ubiquity Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Ross S. Purves
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,584 kg
Artikel-ID: 126146443
Über den Autor
Ross Purves is a professor of Geographic Information Science at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich. His research aims to address societally relevant research questions, with the fundamental aim of making theoretical, thematic and methodological contributions to Geographic Information Science. He is particularly interested in developing methods and answering questions through the use of unstructured information, often in the form of text.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Geografie
Genre: Geowissenschaften
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781911529569
ISBN-10: 1911529560
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Purves, Ross S.
Hersteller: Ubiquity Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Ross S. Purves
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,584 kg
Artikel-ID: 126146443
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