The use of digital technology in our societies is growing to meet the ever-increasing challenges of data collection, raising awareness, education and understanding nature. Artificial intelligence, for example, appears to be the answer to collecting massive amounts of data on biodiversity at a global scale and facilitating citizen participation in such data collection.
Linking with Nature in the Digital Age explores the reconfiguration of our relationship with nature within this digital framework. This book examines this mediated linking from three angles. Firstly, it shows how digital technology can foster the development of links to nature. Then, it describes in greater detail the materiality of these links and how they have evolved with the developments in information technology. Finally, it questions the belief in the digital as a facilitator and opens up new perspectives on our relationship with nature and the living world
Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii
Émilie KOHLMANN
Part 1 Extending Links through Digital Devices 1
Chapter 1 Benchmarks: Biodiversity, Participation and Digital Technology 3
Émilie KOHLMANN and Catherine GAUTHIER
Chapter 2 The Documentary Links of Herbarium Collections and Their
Communicative Stakes 15
Lisa CHUPIN
Chapter 3 Investigating the Relationship with Nature in the Animation of
Wineries' Facebook Pages 35
Marie-Caroline HEĻD and Catherine DE LAVERGNE
Chapter 4 Forms of Linking with Nature and with Others through a Digital
Device: "Let Them Know and Participate" 53
Émilie KOHLMANN
Part 2 Link Materiality and Structure: Generating Data on Nature 73
Chapter 5 Explainable Artificial Intelligence for a Better Understanding of
Naturalist Data 75
Ikram CHRAIBI KAADOUD
Chapter 6 Pooling Biodiversity Databases: Linking Data, Linking Actors 103
Camille BERNARD
Chapter 7 The Challenges and Implementation of the LPO Auvergne-Rhōne-Alpes
Naturalist Information System 127
Daniel THONON
Part 3 Gains and Losses: Questioning the Link to Nature 149
Chapter 8 Complementarity of Big Data and Citizen Participation in
Monitoring Plant Biodiversity 151
Pierre BONNET, Alexis JOLY and Franēois MUNOZ
Chapter 9 New Automatic Identification Tools: An Aid for Botanists and
Nature Managers? 161
Franēois MUNOZ and Pierre BONNET
Chapter 10 The Contribution of New Technologies to Our Experiences of Nature
177
Minh-Xuan TRUONG
Chapter 11 Belonging to the World to Think of the Link: The Relationship
with the Natural Environment as a Crucible of Relatedness 191
Amélie COULBAUT-LAZZARINI
Conclusion 209
Émilie KOHLMANN
List of Authors 215
Index 217
Émilie Kohlmann is a lecturer in information and communication sciences at Université Grenoble Alpes, France. As part of the GRESEC laboratory, she works on nature mediation systems.
