'Rage against the machine'? The opportunities and risks concerning the automation of urban green infrastructure
'Rage against the machine'? The opportunities and risks concerning the automation of urban green infrastructure
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.08.012
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Jonsson, K. Ingemar
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作者：
Gulsrud, Natalie Marie;Raymond, Christopher M.;Jonsson, K. Ingemar
当代社会日益受到自动化的影响；然而，很少有研究考虑自动化对生态系统及其管理的潜在后果(下称城市绿色基础设施的自动化或UGI)。这篇透视文章通过询问UGI规划和管理的数字化方法如何调解UGI的配置和发展以及谁的利益来开始这一讨论。这是通过审查UGI规划和管理的数字化方法中的关键问题和趋势来实现的。我们首先从社会、生态和技术互动的角度对自动化进行概念化，并使用这个镜头来概述与选定的案例研究相关的UGI自动化的风险和机会。这一分析的结果被用来制定一个概念框架，用于评估自动城市地理信息系统所涉材料和治理问题。我们发现，在任何给定的视角下，UGI的自动化都需要在效率、人类代理和赋权之间进行复杂的辩证。此外，与UGI自动化相关的风险和机会并不是固定的，而是在多个尺度上不断变化的关于权力、行为者、游戏规则和话语的上下文紧张关系的动态特性。最后，我们概述了如何在社会-生态-技术方法中考虑不同的数字进步的研究议程。
Contemporary society is increasingly impacted by automation; however, few studies have considered the potential consequences of automation on ecosystems and their management (hereafter the automation of urban green infrastructure or UGI). This Perspective Essay takes up this discussion by asking how a digital approach to UGI planning and management mediates the configuration and development of UGI and to whose benefit? This is done through a review of key issues and trends in digital approaches to UGI planning and management. We first conceptualize automation from a social, ecological, and technological interactions perspective and use this lens to present an overview of the risks and opportunities of UGI automation with respect to selected case studies. Results of this analysis are used to develop a conceptual framework for the assessment of the material and governance implications of automated UGIs. We find that, within any given perspective, the automation of UGI entails a complex dialectic between efficiency, human agency and empowerment. Further, risks and opportunities associated with UGI automation are not fixed but are dynamic properties of changing contextual tensions concerning power, actors, rules of the game and discourse at multiple scales. We conclude the paper by outlining a research agenda on how to consider different digital advances within a social-ecological-technological approach.