846 research outputs found
Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest
No full textFigures and data for Bergmann, Luke, Luis Fernando Chaves, David O’Sullivan, and Robert G. Wallace. 2023. "Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12, no. 5: 195. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi1205019
Regenerative-Conventional Agricultural Mapping
No full textRepository associated with the article Bergmann, L.; Chaves, L.F.; Betz, C.R.; Stein, S.; Wiedenfeld, B.; Wolf, A.; Wallace, R.G. Mapping Agricultural Lands: From Conventional to Regenerative. Land 2022, 11, 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/land1103043
The Productivore's Dilemma: Extinction or Extermination?
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021University of WashingtonAbstract
The Productivore’s Dilemma: Extinction or Extermination?
Christopher R. Cox
Chair of the Supervisory Committee:
Dr. Luke Bergmann, Department of Geography, University of Washington
In the Productivore’s Dilemma three overarching claims are explored in a manuscript of chapters split into two parts: First, that human and more-than-human life is not only threatened by extinction but is more importantly threatened by systemic extermination. Second, utilizing the coast redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens) as an object for analysis, I seek to show that one of the largest known plant species is not only threatened by extinction, but by negative production of space, a concept theorized throughout the manuscript. The coast redwood tree is a remarkable example of the fact that there are important differences between extinction caused by natural processes and extinction caused by Anthropogenic systems. Third, using the analytical apparatus of systemic extermination helps to clarify a long-unfolding and intensifying species-level crisis, which I identify as the Long Extermination, an historical event – highly stretchable in its temporal coordinates. At the center of this critical re-framing of the debate about the so-called sixth mass extinction and its epochal designation the Anthropocene, is what I refer to as the Productivore’s Dilemma: born of the realization that the main difference between the human species and all other species on the planet is not merely that we can consume and use for fuel a wide variety of plants, fibers, and animals, due to our omnivorous nature, but that we can consciously produce our habitats and our food. Hence, we are productivores. A dilemma then arises: are humans destroying the planet or are the systems that direct our productive capacities destroying the planet? If it is the latter, then we are witnessing systemic extermination. If it is the former, we are causing a mass extinction. The answer will please nobody, and thus it is a dilemma. That said, there is an answer. In providing an answer, this manuscript, while broad and synthetic in its structure and scope, takes aim at a set of ideas and historical processes that deserve to be critically interrogated. Critiques of the Anthropocene and the sixth mass extinction move freely between the internal and external, leading to one central counterpoint: That we are not witnessing the sixth mass extinction, but the maturation of a long-term extermination event that is systemic much more than it is species oriented
Images of Nature through Platforms. Practices and Relationships as a Research Field and an Epistemic Vantage Point of DEH
No full textContemporarily, digital images are produced and shared ubiquitously. By taking stock of this phenomenon through the lens of the DEH, this chapter will consider such images and pictures as cultural products. It will illustrate that digital photographs offer an opportunity to study cultural practices and how people interact with nature and focus on how research is being shaped and enacted through web platforms. A key issue in DEH debates is the notion of “field” and the use of images for online research on “nature,” which can be framed by science and technology studies literature on the scholarly deployment of digital tools. Firstly, this chapter will provide a historical review of the relationship between the production and use of images involving nature and environments. Secondly, it will provide a description of the changes that digitalisation (first) and datafication (afterwards) have brought to society and the social sciences. Digital platforms have provided a reshuffle of previous practices and new configurations. Less featured in DEH debates is a focus on platforms for citizen science projects, where non-professionals contribute to scientific activities, often based on collecting specimens and pictures of nature and wildlife online. By investigating this emerging “field,” the epistemic value of studying images of nature and environments in the context of “digital citizen science” practices can be highlighted
One Map Closer to the End of the World (As We Know It): Thinking Digital Cartographic Humanities with the Anthropocene
No full textThis chapter discusses the role of the cartographic humanities within the horizons of
environmental thought by exploring the wider visual disseminations of the Anthropocene in
different cartographic media. Through “seensing” (the act of seeing and sensing images), the
aesthetic experience of the Cartographic Anthropocene can be lived in its intellectual and
emotional, attentive and fleeting, and symbolic and material nuances. Specifically, this chapter
intersects three domains (visuality, materiality, and movement) that contextualise
anthropocentric and post-anthropocentric digital and non-digital maps into three different
configurations: fast-moving, slow, or exhausted. Subsequent sections highlight these different
characteristics of maps and, consequently, the wide spectrum of rhythms imbued in mapping
(at) the end of the world as we know it
Evolution of a prototype : (fragments from) Vancouver’s political economy of construction
No full textThis project develops the architectural theorist George Baird's (1939-2023) concept of “The Political Economy of Construction” to explore Vancouver’s housing crisis. The research objectives were to produce an expansive holographic multi-subjectivity of “Vancouver’s Political Economy of Construction” through interviews. The first section describes a series of moving image-based projects in the evolution of what the author calls “The Prototype,” a rigorous wandering with a camera based on Guy Debord’s “Theory of the Dérive.” Each Prototype is an experiment and a struggle with established heuristics of a material body, such as one year of new construction in Toronto. The second part is a collection of interviews attempting to construct “Vancouver’s Political Economy of Construction,” including George Baird, architects, a carpenter, planners, a renter, housing activists, developers, an engineer, a macroeconomist, and an immigration lawyer. The afterword reflects on the success and failure of the project: perhaps it should have been longer with more interviews to produce the desired effect.Arts, Faculty ofGeography, Department ofGraduat
Gustav Bergmann, New Foundations of Ontology
No full textThe formal ontology here presented is what we might call a typed combinatorial Meinongian mereology. Its author seeks to formulate the laws, here called ‘canons’, regulating how entities can combine together in wholes of different sorts. The method, as in Bergmann’s earlier works, involves the construction of an ideal language of such a sort that the analysis of complex wholes can be achieved by transforming our natural-language representations of reality into what we might think of as artificial characteristic maps or diagrams which allow the relevant ontological structures to be read off immediately from the symbolic representations which results. In former works Bergmann had held that the symbolic language of Principia Mathematica could serve as the appropriate diagrammatic device for the standard first-order functional calculus and develops instead a new sort diagrammatic languag
Testing Mechanisms of Bergmann's Rule: Phenotypic Decline but No Genetic Change in Body Size in Three Testing Mechanisms of Bergmann's Rule: Phenotypic Decline but No Genetic Change in Body Size in Three Passerine Bird Populations
No full textJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. abstract: Bergmann's rule predicts a decrease in body size with increasing temperature and has much empirical support. Surprisingly, we know very little about whether "Bergmann size clines" are due to a genetic response or are a consequence of phenotypic plasticity. Here, we use data on body size (mass and tarsus length) from three long-term ) study populations of great tits (Parus major) that experienced a temperature increase to examine mechanisms behind Bergmann's rule. We show that adult body mass decreased over the study period in all populations and that tarsus length increased in one population. Both body mass and tarsus length were heritable and under weak positive directional selection, predicting an increase, rather than a decrease, in body mass. There was no support for microevolutionary change, and thus the observed declines in body mass were likely a result of phenotypic plasticity. Interestingly, this plasticity was not in direct response to temperature changes but seemed to be due to changes in prey dynamics. Our results caution against interpreting recent phenotypic body size declines as adaptive evolutionary responses to temperature changes and highlight the importance of considering alternative environmental factors when testing size clines. The University of Chicago Press an
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