The Changing Terrain of Environmentality: EIONET and the New Landscapes of Europe

Schemes for biodiversity protection were instrumental to building the legitimacy of post-national cooperation during the early phases of European integration. Today, Europe's regime of environmental security suggests new dimensions of territoriality manifest in the adoption of information and communication technologies. This paper explores some changing paradigms for eco-development in Sardinia, Italy and the European Union to consider the political stakes and human dimensions inherent in the creation of databases such as the European Information and Observation Network. It critically expands the concept of "environmentality" (Agrawal 2005) in light of insights recognizing the multiscalar dimensions of governance in the global, digital age.