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      Climate change, forest conservation and science: A case study of New Zealand, 1860s-1920

      Beattie, James John
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      Beattie, J. (2009). Climate change, forest conservation and science: A case study of New Zealand, 1860s-1920. History of Meteorology, 5, 1-18.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4154
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      To most of its European settlers, New Zealand was a land blessed by Providence. A temperate climate and year-round rainfall, easy availability of land and myriad work opportunities attracted many to the new colony. Climate and health figured prominently in migration considerations and many writers took delight in pointing out, as propagandist John Ward did to intending migrants in 1839, that in New Zealand: A never-failing moisture is dispersed over the country by the clouds which collect on the mountain-tops, without the occurrence of rainy seasons, beyond storms of a few days’ duration. This refreshing moisture, combined with the influence of the sea-breezes, renders the climate very favourable to the health, and development, of the human frame. And vegetation is, from the same cause, highly luxuriant, and the verdure almost perpetual.
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      2009
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      International Commission on History of Meteorology
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      This article has been published in the journal: History of Meteorology. Used with permission.
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