A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas off shore operations
We know little about the marine environment, particularly in the inhospitable Arctic region. Whereas national authorities often rely on the construction of a solid knowledge base to allow human activity access to new areas, scientists point to the impossibility of building comprehensive knowledge of...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/55408 2024-11-03T14:52:47+00:00 A measure of ‘environmental happiness’: Infrastructuring environmental risk in oil and gas off shore operations Parmiggiani, Elena Monteiro, Eric 2016-02-12 application/pdf https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/55408 https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.55408 eng eng European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studie https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/55408/pdf_3 https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/55408 doi:10.23987/sts.55408 Copyright (c) 2016 Elena Parmiggiani, Eric Monteiro Science & Technology Studies; Vol. 29 No. 1 (2016): Science & Technology Studies. Special Issue: Knowledge Infrastructures: Part I; 30-51 Science & Technology Studies; Vol 29 Nro 1 (2016): Science & Technology Studies. Special Issue: Knowledge Infrastructures: Part I; 30-51 2243-4690 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Research Papers 2016 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.55408 2024-10-08T15:05:44Z We know little about the marine environment, particularly in the inhospitable Arctic region. Whereas national authorities often rely on the construction of a solid knowledge base to allow human activity access to new areas, scientists point to the impossibility of building comprehensive knowledge of subsea ecosystems. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a Norwegian oil and gas company’s development of a knowledge infrastructure for measuring the long-term trend of the behaviour of the marine environment, i.e. a baseline to be used as a reference to calculate potential risks in a commercially relevant Arctic area. The company’s infrastructuring mechanisms involve selecting and configuring environmental sensing technologies, and tying them into the fabric of the company’s operational analysis routines. We identify and discuss how these mechanisms address and articulate temporal, spatial, and social tensions and how, in so doing, they mould new representations of environmental risk. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Arctic Science & Technology Studies 29 1 30 51 |
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We know little about the marine environment, particularly in the inhospitable Arctic region. Whereas national authorities often rely on the construction of a solid knowledge base to allow human activity access to new areas, scientists point to the impossibility of building comprehensive knowledge of subsea ecosystems. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a Norwegian oil and gas company’s development of a knowledge infrastructure for measuring the long-term trend of the behaviour of the marine environment, i.e. a baseline to be used as a reference to calculate potential risks in a commercially relevant Arctic area. The company’s infrastructuring mechanisms involve selecting and configuring environmental sensing technologies, and tying them into the fabric of the company’s operational analysis routines. We identify and discuss how these mechanisms address and articulate temporal, spatial, and social tensions and how, in so doing, they mould new representations of environmental risk. |
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Science & Technology Studies; Vol. 29 No. 1 (2016): Science & Technology Studies. Special Issue: Knowledge Infrastructures: Part I; 30-51 Science & Technology Studies; Vol 29 Nro 1 (2016): Science & Technology Studies. Special Issue: Knowledge Infrastructures: Part I; 30-51 2243-4690 |
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