Global Models and Local Knowledges
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2023Type
- Master Thesis
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Abstract
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity with which flooding occurs. Framed as an invading force (Brooks 2005), both public and private organizations seek ways to fight this harmful phenomena back. Regularly proposed in contemporary discourse as a potent weapon in this battle is artificial intelligence. The urgency and scale of the climate crisis calls for solutions with speed and reach. However, what is often obscured in grand visions of a sustainable future for all, is how we imagine and act to get there. With this project, I inquire into the politics of flood forecasting with machine learning. I study visions of the global with climate disasters, how these visions are operationalized with machine learning, and how such projects form together with identities, norms, and practices in specific localities. To understand how flood forecasting models are political, I ask what is being optimized, for whom, and who gets to decide. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000661167Publication status
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ETH ZurichSubject
Science and Technology Studies (STS); Machine learning; Climate change; Flood forecasting; Situated knowledges; PoliticsOrganisational unit
09772 - Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita / Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita
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