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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping the disaster
T2 - global prediction and the medium of ‘digital earth’
AU - Yusoff, kathryn
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - This paper explores the mapping of disaster in digital prediction models. Concentrating on the imminent disaster of climate change, the author asks how global digital models can be expanded to incorporate a wild nature and wild data. This theme is considered through an examination of the ‘nature’ of disaster and its reportage, GISs and their extension into physical space, the language of climate change, and the role of digital machines in these experiments with climate. The author concludes with an examination of expanded forms of mapping to suggest possible reconfigurations of the terms of the disaster.
AB - This paper explores the mapping of disaster in digital prediction models. Concentrating on the imminent disaster of climate change, the author asks how global digital models can be expanded to incorporate a wild nature and wild data. This theme is considered through an examination of the ‘nature’ of disaster and its reportage, GISs and their extension into physical space, the language of climate change, and the role of digital machines in these experiments with climate. The author concludes with an examination of expanded forms of mapping to suggest possible reconfigurations of the terms of the disaster.
KW - Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
KW - globality
KW - Mapping
KW - cartography
KW - pyschogeography
KW - Digital Earth
KW - disaster
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
JO - Leonardo Electronic Almanac
JF - Leonardo Electronic Almanac
IS - 7-8
ER -