Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| DOI | 10.1080/13507486.2020.1737649 |
| Climate as resource and challenge: international cooperation in the UNESCO Arid Zone Programme | |
| Heymann, Matthias | |
| 通讯作者 | Heymann, Matthias |
| 来源期刊 | EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY-REVUE EUROPEENNE D HISTOIRE
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| ISSN | 1350-7486 |
| EISSN | 1469-8293 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 卷号 | 27期号:3页码:294-320 |
| 英文摘要 | Perceptions of climatic challenges have changed significantly during the twentieth century. In recent decades, the question of global climate change received more attention than regional climatic challenges and the problems of arid regions. Historians have shown that persistent misconceptions and a lack of understanding of arid zones rooted in misguided colonial ideologies were propagated by United Nations (UN) initiatives such as the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Arid Zone Programme. Alarmist narratives of progressive desertification proliferated and put the blame on destructive local practices such as deforestation and overgrazing. This article investigates UNESCO's interests in natural resources (section 1) and takes a closer look at the development and scientific elements of the Arid Zone Programme (sections 2 and 3). It argues that the Arid Zone Programme offered an effective framework that helped develop and spread new interdisciplinary research approaches to improve knowledge about arid zones. The myth of progressing desertification and misguided colonial expertise characterized much of its political rhetoric, but not its scientific work, which reflected balanced and more critical appraisals of out-dated colonial expertise. In its conclusion, the article suggests that broader contexts need to be taken into account to understand a resurgence of alarmist narratives of desertification such as shifting interests in climatology from local climatic issues to the global atmospheric circulation and a neglect of the climatology of arid zones. |
| 英文关键词 | UNESCO Arid Zone Programme resource perceptions climate and food security perceptions of climate climatological research |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | Denmark |
| 收录类别 | AHCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000544456800004 |
| WOS关键词 | DESERTIFICATION ; DROUGHT ; WORLD |
| WOS类目 | History |
| WOS研究方向 | History |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/319520 |
| 作者单位 | Aarhus Univ, Ctr Sci Studies, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Heymann, Matthias. Climate as resource and challenge: international cooperation in the UNESCO Arid Zone Programme[J],2020,27(3):294-320. |
| APA | Heymann, Matthias.(2020).Climate as resource and challenge: international cooperation in the UNESCO Arid Zone Programme.EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY-REVUE EUROPEENNE D HISTOIRE,27(3),294-320. |
| MLA | Heymann, Matthias."Climate as resource and challenge: international cooperation in the UNESCO Arid Zone Programme".EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY-REVUE EUROPEENNE D HISTOIRE 27.3(2020):294-320. |
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