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dc.contributor.authorCushman, Gregory T.
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-19T01:29:13Z
dc.date.available2013-07-19T01:29:13Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationCushman, Gregory T. Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in Northern South America. Osiris 26 (2011): 19-44. Special issue Revisiting Klima, edited by James R. Fleming and Vladimir Jankovic
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/11507
dc.descriptionThis is the published version, © 2011 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.
dc.description.abstractThe belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander von Humboldt’s treatment of the Lake Valencia basin in Venezuela and the desert coast of Peru as natural laboratories for observing the interaction between geophysical and cultural forces was central to this discovery, as was Humboldt’s belief that European colonialism was especially destructive to the land. Humboldt’s overt cultivation of disciples was critical to building the prestige of this discovery and popularizing the Humboldtian scientific program, which depended fundamentally on local observers, but willfully marginalized chorographic knowledge systems. In creating new, global forms of environmental understanding, Humboldtian science also generated new forms of ignorance.
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.titleHumboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in Northern South America
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorCushman, Gregory T.
kusw.kudepartmentEnvironmental Studies
kusw.kudepartmentHistory
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/661263
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
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