Environmental Digital Humanities (EDH) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates environmental studies, digital tools, and the humanities to explore the complex interactions between humans, nature, climate, and sustainability. This field employs technologies such as data visualization, digital mapping, and multimedia narratives to analyze environmental issues from cultural, historical, and socioeconomic perspectives.
EDH projects encompass various modalities:
Historical Cartography: Mapping past landscapes to document ecosystem transformations over time.
Digital Storytelling: Documenting personal and community experiences related to climate change and environmental degradation.
Knowledge Preservation: Creating digital archives that safeguard traditional and local knowledge about the environment.
Textual Analysis: Study of historical sources to examine how societies have conceptualized and represented their relationship with the natural environment.
By articulating digital technologies and the humanities, AHDs provide valuable tools for understanding contemporary environmental challenges and analyzing societies’ historical responses to ecological crises. This approach represents an innovative convergence of science, culture, and digital technology, aimed at generating critical knowledge that inspires transformative action toward sustainability.
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