Introduction to regional approaches to data, environment and society

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ID10409751
AuthorsJim Thatcher (Urban Studies, University of Washington – Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA., corresponding author), R Burns (0000-0001-5025-4947, Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.), Craig M Dalton (0000-0001-6208-1043), Craig Dalton (Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA.)
Year2021
Volume55
Issue12
Pages1853-1856
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegional Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00343404.2021.1993170
OpenAlexW3217050736
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited38

Theoretical and methodological research into the geographical effects of software, algorithms, sensors and platforms increasingly focuses squarely on data and their analysis. Amidst increasing attention on ‘the digital’ (broadly defined) within various cognate fields, scholars have begun critically scrutinizing the recursive relations between individual, society, city-regions and environment as mediated through technological and computational devices and approaches, and, in particular, how phenomena are encoded and acted upon as data. In this editorial, we introduce a set of articles that interrogate regional and interregional approaches to these and other issues

Data science · Economics · Management science · Political science · Regional development · Regional science · Regional studies · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Software

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