Oceaning : Governing Marine Life with Drones / Adam Fish

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture—a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

[2024]

©2024

Erschienen:

Durham: Duke University Press ; 2024

©2024

Reihe:

Elements, 8

Sprache:

Englisch

In English

Beteiligte Personen:

Fish, Adam [VerfasserIn]

Links:

doi.org [lizenzpflichtig]
www.degruyter.com [lizenzpflichtig]
Cover

ISBN:

978-1-4780-5901-1

Themen:

Drone aircraft in remote sensing
Information storage and retrieval systems
Information storage and retrieval systems-Marine biology
Marine biology
Marine biology-Remote sensing
Marine biology-Research-Technological innovations
Marine sciences
Marine sciences-Remote sensing
Marine sciences-Research-Technological innovations
Oceanography
Oceanography-Remote sensing
Oceanography-Research-Technological innovations
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)

doi:

10.1515/9781478059011

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1883330823