Global Forest Visualization by Olman, Lynda; Schneider, Birgit;

From Green Marbles to Storyworlds

Series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 27 June 2025

ISBN 9781032454016
Binding Paperback
No. of pages112 pages
Size 216x138 mm
Weight 210 g
Language English
Illustrations 14 Illustrations, color; 14 Halftones, color; 1 Tables, black & white

Short description:

This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.

Long description:

This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management.

Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. This dislocation of the idea of the forest from its literal roots in the ground has generated problems for forest visualization efforts designed to empower local communities. This book takes a critical humanistic approach to this problem, combining methods from the fields of rhetoric and media studies to suggest solutions to these problems for designers and users of platforms like the Global Forest Watch. To explain why global views of forests can be disempowering, the book relies on biopolitical and rhetorical theories of panopticism and how these views unfold a different violence on different regions of the Earth in relation to colonial history. Using this theoretical framework, the book explains the historical process by which forests came to be classified, quantified, and mapped on a global scale. Interviews with end-users of global forest visualization platforms reveal if and how these platforms support local action. Lastly, the book provides rhetorical solutions to articulate global and local views of forests without reducing one view to the other. These solutions involve looking to forests themselves for clues about how to generate more broadly effective and resilient visualizations.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of forest studies, climate change, science communication, visualization studies, environmental communication, and environmental conservation.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

**Winner of the 2025 National Communication Association’s Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication**