Why the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative is archiving public environmental data.

Nost, Eric; Gehrke, Gretchen; Vera, Lourdes; Hansen, Steve · Patterns (N Y) · 2025

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Abstract

Public data help researchers and civic organizations develop solutions and advance accountability around environmental challenges but are vulnerable to political threats. While the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative archives data to ensure their availability, we also situate data within their political and economic contexts to support good scientific practice and democratic knowledge production for environmental justice.