CSIRO的中央澳大利亚实验室的历史,1:1953-80:牧区土地研究

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Margaret H. Friedel, Stephen R. Morton
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CSIRO在干旱地区的研究始于第二次世界大战后,当时大力推动开发澳大利亚北部人口稀少和孤立的地区,这符合国家利益。这种动力有社会和政治根源,但实施取决于对区域“潜力”的科学见解,这在当时是在农艺和畜牧使用方面表达的。雷·佩里是该地区早期土地资源调查的关键人物,后来是澳大利亚干旱和半干旱牧场研究的关键推动者和支持者。他的承诺对CSIRO中央澳大利亚实验室的建立至关重要。当CSIRO于1953年在爱丽丝泉成立时,主要关注的是牧区土地的使用和为此目的改善土地。从最初的“使沙漠开花”,特别是使广阔的刺草草原更“有用”,研究的重点转移到维持牛喜欢的国家的生产力和建立监测其健康的方法。直到20世纪70年代,为了响应更广泛的澳大利亚社区的重要社会和政治变化,土著和保护土地管理才断断续续地出现在实验室的研究议程中。
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A history of CSIRO’S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953–80: pastoral land research

A history of CSIRO’S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953–80: pastoral land research

CSIRO’s research in the arid zone was initiated after World War 2 when a strong push to develop the sparsely populated and isolated region of northern Australia was promoted as being in the national interest. This impetus had social and political origins but implementation depended on scientific insights into regional ‘potential’, which was couched at the time in terms of agronomic and pastoral use. Ray Perry was a key figure in early land resource surveys of the region and later a key motivator for, and supporter of, research in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of Australia. His commitment was fundamental to the establishment of CSIRO’s Central Australian Laboratory. Pastoral land use and improving the land for that purpose were the primary concerns when CSIRO’s presence in Alice Springs was established in 1953. From an initial focus on ‘making the desert bloom’, in particular making the vast spinifex grasslands more ‘useful’, the focus of research shifted to maintaining the productivity of country preferred by cattle and establishing methods for monitoring its health. It was not until the 1970s that Aboriginal and conservation land management appeared in the laboratory’s research agenda, somewhat intermittently, in response to important social and political changes in the wider Australian community.

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Historical Records of Australian Science
Historical Records of Australian Science HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: Historical Records of Australian Science is a bi-annual journal that publishes two kinds of unsolicited manuscripts relating to the history of science, pure and applied, in Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific. Historical Articles–original scholarly pieces of peer-reviewed research Historical Documents–either hitherto unpublished or obscurely published primary sources, along with a peer-reviewed scholarly introduction. The first issue of the journal (under the title Records of the Australian Academy of Science), appeared in 1966, and the current name was adopted in 1980.
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