Fixed categories in a portable landscape: the causes and consequences of land-cover categorization
Fixed categories in a portable landscape: the causes and consequences of land-cover categorization
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10.1068/a3379
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2001-01-01
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Robbins, P
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Robbins, P
在本文中，我探讨了为绘制景观图而定义土地覆盖类别的原因和影响。在印度拉贾斯坦邦的一个案例中，利用参与式遥感技术，我证明了当地和专家对环境的描述在质量和数量上是不同的。因此，我的结论是，卫星图像不是解决关于土地覆盖的辩论的公正工具，而是先前关于自然性质的辩论的结果。此外，这种意象在环境的转变中起到了一种力量的作用；通过固定对环境的某些解释和强迫某些管理形式，技术通过一个反向适应的过程在土地上发生变化。因此，我的结论是，官僚机构在机械客观性方面的努力有助于通过生态现代化的实践使土地覆盖制度化，从而创造出可测量、可量化和具有侵略性的土地覆盖。
In this paper I explore both the causes and the effects of defining land-cover categories for the mapping of landscapes. Utilizing a participatory remote sensing technique in a case example from Rajasthan, India, I demonstrate that local and expert characterizations of the environment are qualitatively and quantitatively divergent. Satellite imagery, I therefore conclude, is not an impartial tool for the settlement of debates about land cover but is instead the result of prior debates about the character of nature. Moreover, such imagery acts as a force in the transformation of the environment; by fixing certain interpretations of the environment and forcing certain forms of management, technology changes on the land through a process of reverse adaptation. I conclude, therefore, that bureaucratic efforts at mechanical objectivity serve to institutionalize and therefore create measurable, quantifiable, and aggressive land covers through the practice of ecological modernization.