Introduction to regional approaches to data, environment and society
这篇社论介绍了一组探讨区域和跨区域方法如何研究软件、算法、传感器等数字技术对个体、社会、城市区域与环境之间递归关系的文章，适合关注数字地理与区域发展的学者。
Theoretical and methodological research into the geographical effects of software, algorithms, sensors and platforms increasingly focuses squarely on data and their analysis. Amidst increasing attention on ‘the digital’ (broadly defined) within various cognate fields, scholars have begun critically scrutinizing the recursive relations between individual, society, city-regions and environment as mediated through technological and computational devices and approaches, and, in particular, how phenomena are encoded and acted upon as data. In this editorial, we introduce a set of articles that interrogate regional and interregional approaches to these and other issues.