Rainbow-chasing in the tropics: British economic activities in northern South America
In: Inter-American economic affairs, S. 69-81
ISSN: 0020-4943
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In: Inter-American economic affairs, S. 69-81
ISSN: 0020-4943
In: International migration, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 269-306
ISSN: 0020-7985
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 269-306
ISSN: 1468-2435
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 43, Heft 2, S. 241-250
ISSN: 0023-8791
This is the published version, © 2011 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved. ; The 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.
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In: Air quality, atmosphere and health: an international journal, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 745-764
ISSN: 1873-9326
In: STOTEN-D-22-01808
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In: Blackness in Latin America and the Carribbean 1
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 40, Heft 3, S. 403-416
ISSN: 0023-8791
In: The Adelphi Papers, Band 17, Heft 137, S. 10-20
In: Latin American research review, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 403-416
ISSN: 1542-4278