The review, published in @ambio-journal.bsky.social, develops an analytical framework and provide recommendations for community-based landscape regeneration to support and mobilise more democratic and socially just approaches to ecological regeneration initiatives.

Undertaken as part of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration research initiative @clr-cambridge.bsky.social, the authors map landscape regeneration and restoration initiatives across international contexts based on four themes around community organisation, land ownership, engagement and land values.

It proposes that a more deliberate encounter with forests as technologies could counterintuitively transform social-ecological relations and contribute to more equitable environmental practices.

Analysing the technicities of trillion-trees research and initiatives, the paper shows how trees and forests can figure less as carbon removal machinery but more as community-based practices of cultivating and connecting with environments.

Also check out the related Story by Michelle on the Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/en/stories/d...

This participatory research highlights the community’s nuanced relationships with local biodiversity and offers practical design recommendations for biodiversity technologies that can better align with local restoration efforts.

रिपोर्ट दुनिया भर में वनों के डिजिटलीकरण के सामाजिक-राजनीतिक प्रभावों की पड़ताल करती है। चिली, इंडोनेशिया, नीदरलैंड और भारत के चार केस स्टडीज पर आधारित यह वन प्रौद्योगिकियों के लिए विविध समुदाय-नेतृत्व वाले दृष्टिकोणों को सुनिश्चित करने के लिए रणनीतियों का प्रस्ताव करती है।

Laporan ini mengeksplorasi dampak sosial-politik dari digitalisasi hutan di seluruh dunia. Berdasarkan empat studi kasus dari Chili, Indonesia, Belanda, dan India, laporan ini mengusulkan strategi untuk memastikan keberagaman pendekatan teknologi kehutanan yang dipimpin oleh komunitas.

El informe explora los impactos sociopolíticos de la digitalización de los bosques en todo el mundo. Basado en cuatro estudios de caso de Chile, Indonesia, Países Bajos e India, propone estrategias para garantizar enfoques comunitarios diversos para las tecnologías forestales.

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The report explores the socio-political impacts of the digitalisation of forests around the world. Grounded in the four case studies from Chile, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and India, it proposes strategies to ensure diverse community-led approaches to forest technologies.

The collection includes a new chapter by Jennifer Gabrys, “Sensing a Planet on Fire and Listening with Forests,” that draws on Smart Forests fieldwork in Chile, focusing on fire, fire technology, and community engagement with wildfires.

This compelling collection gathers diverse perspectives on “sensory commons” and different ways of sensing environmental conditions across theory and practice, with multiple tools and instruments, and in contexts spanning Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey, Chile and more.