Dam to delta : visualizing landscapes of decarbonization in the Saaghii Naachii/Peace River region, Canada ...
This dissertation analyzes how decarbonization in Canada is mutually co-constitutive with processes of landscape change. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship in human geography and landscape architecture, with a focus on digital technologies of landscape visualization and manipulation, this di...
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University of British Columbia
2022
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0406570 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0406570 |
| Summary: | This dissertation analyzes how decarbonization in Canada is mutually co-constitutive with processes of landscape change. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship in human geography and landscape architecture, with a focus on digital technologies of landscape visualization and manipulation, this dissertation critically analyzes how contemporary decarbonization agendas (re)produce conditions of uneven development and socioecological instability. Chapter 2 explores how the historical formation of energy landscapes in Canada’s boreal region continues to influence design proposals for the low-carbon transition, often at the expense of Indigenous communities and fragile ecologies. Chapter 3 calls attention to the pervasive tendency to depict human impacts upon Earth though highly abstract and aestheticized visualizations; a deeply depoliticizing practice I term planetary voyeurism. Chapter 4 builds upon this critique through a meta-review of water-energy nexus visualizations: a resource governance framework that ... |
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