Article ID: CBB001024215

Climates as Commodities: Jean Pierre Purry and the Modelling of the Best Climate on Earth (2010)

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Jankovic, Vladimir (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Volume: 41
Pages: 201--207


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Modelling and Simulation in the Atmospheric and Climate Sciences”
Language: English

The paper looks at how an early eighteenth-century climatological model of the `best climate' on Earth became a platform for political, economic, and demographic action of extraordinary significance for the colonization of new commodity environments. It analyzes the science used by an early modern business adventurer to model `climate' as an economic tool informing imperial governance and exploitation of local resources. Jean Pierre Purry's construction of `model climate' portrayed North Carolina's township at Yamassee River as an ideal environment geared toward mercantilist principles of trade but also as a model community based on skilled labor and optimal climatic capital. His climatological analysis was a purposeful act of policy making based on a science of colonial expansion similar to more recent calls at economic modelling of future climate impact.

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Description On an 18th-century climatological model and its relation to policy making in colonial North Carolina.


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Authors & Contributors
Heymann, Matthias
Edwards, Paul N.
Beattie, James
Toledano, Anna
Peter Hupfer
Henry, Matthew
Concepts
Science and politics
Climate and climatology
Colonialism
Public policy
Imperialism
Models and modeling in science
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Australia
New Zealand
South Asia
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Mexico City (Mexico)
United States
Institutions
National Weather Service (U.S.)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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