Spatial Finance: GI Science, Spatial Data Infrastructures and Green Finance

Spatial Finance defines the coupling of GI Science, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and Green Finance. This study examines the implications of Spatial Finance on the political-economy of SDIs and the impacts of SDI structures, relationships and institutions on the political-economy and geographies of Green Finance. This research foregrounds the field of Green Finance in SDI research and highlights how GIS is enabling the financing of the low-carbon transition. This places new socio- economic and socio-ecological significance on SDIs and GI Science and opens avenues for Critical GIS studies to inform research on the practice and politics of financialized climate governance.