A special feature in ‘People and Nature’ explores how digital technologies are increasingly shaping nature recovery, conservation, governance, and environmental decision-making – including questions of power, participation, surveillance, knowledge, and justice.
It emerged from the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference at the University of Oxford, which brought together researchers and practitioners working across science, policy, technology, and practice. Part funded by The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and The Agile Initiative, the conference created a genuinely interdisciplinary space to explore both the potential and the tensions of digital technologies in nature recovery, including monitoring, remediation, agriculture, finance, governance, justice, and community participation.
One of the most valuable aspects of the event was the opportunity to move beyond simplistic narratives of technology either as a solution to, or threat to, nature’s recovery, and instead embrace the messy, political, and contested realities of digital nature recovery as it unfolds across a variety of contexts and histories.
🌳 Theo Stanley – ‘Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding’:
🐺 William Adams – ‘Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery’
📊 Lucy Jenner, Marc Metzger, Darren Moseley, and Ed Forrest – ”We want to be the hosts of this story’: Learning from community-led approaches to data governance of land use for nature recovery’
The papers are featured here
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Today, decisions about how to restore our landscapes depend heavily on huge amounts of digital data. However, this information is often hard to find, difficult to understand, or expensive to access
