Andrew Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3754404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9654-8147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Transforming the Prairies
Recent advances in social metabolism research
Social Metabolism research emerged in the 1970s and has since evolved into a dynamic field of social science research on pressing environmental and sustainability challenges in the twenty‐first century. Historians began using these methods to evaluate socio‐ecological transitions of societies and compare patterns of resource use over time and across space. This introduction explains the central tenets of Social Metabolism research and briefly exp…
Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties
Between 1850 and 1926 Ontario’s capital city, Toronto, grew from a small colonial port to one of the largest cities on the Great Lakes. In this article we introduce a rich time series dataset of ships entering the city’s port and the commodities they carried, explore its potential for urban metabolism research, and consider some of its limitations. We argue that the detail recorded in the ledgers of the Toronto Harbour Master affords multiple tem…
The Greater Plains
The study of the Great Plains has done much to help define the field of environmental history, especially in the United States. And because histories of “dust, drought, and declension” dominated studies of, and ways of thinking about, the Great Plains, the tension between competing linear narratives of progress and decline also became highly influential among environmental historians over the past three decades. In this new edited collection, Bri…
Sustaining a Simple Life
Sustaining a Simple Life. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 33, numéro 2, 2023, p. 1-254) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Global Carbon Budget 2021
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize datasets and methodology toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertainties. …
Multidecadal changes in biology influence the variability of the North Atlantic carbon sink
The North Atlantic Ocean is the most intense marine sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the world’s oceans, showing high variability and substantial changes over recent decades. However, the contribution of biology to the variability and trend of this sink is poorly understood. Here we use in situ plankton measurements, alongside observation-based sea surface CO 2 data from 1982 to 2020, to investigate the biological influence on the…
Global Carbon Budget 2020
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate – the “global carbon budget” – is important tobetter understand the global carbon cycle, support the development ofclimate policies, and project future climate change. Here we describe andsynthesize data sets and methodology to quantify the five major componentsof the global carbon…
George Seferis, Novel and Other Poems, translated by Roderick Beaton. Athens
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Steam Power and Sea Power
Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870–1914." Canadian Journal of History, 53(3), pp. 523–524
Pioneering a Rural Identity on the Canadian Shield
At the end of the nineteenth century, Euro-Canadians extended rural society into new frontier areas unsuited to agriculture. These efforts were informed by a perspective that conflated rural and agrarian – a perspective that continues to dominate historians' thinking about rural societies. The resettlement of Muskoka demonstrates how the Canadian Shield's poor soils forced pioneers to rethink these assumptions and, in places adjacent to the lakes…
Fault Lines
Reviewed by: Fault Lines: Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy by Emily Eaton, Valarie Zink Andrew Watson Eaton, Emily, and Valarie Zink – Fault Lines: Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016. Pp. 128. In twenty-first-century Saskatchewan, oil “looks like freedom, but feels like death” (p. 98). These lyrics from Leonard Cohen’s 1992 song “Closing Time,” sprawled across an oil tank…
Geoparsing history
In the Trading Consequences project, historians, computational linguists, and computer scientists collaborated to develop a text mining system that extracts information from a vast amount of digitized published English-language sources from the “long nineteenth century” (1789 to 1914). The project focused on identifying relationships within the texts between commodities, geographical locations, and dates. The authors explain the methodology, uses…
Allied power
Social Security for China's Migrant Workers – Providing for Old Age
The concept of “migrant workers” derives from the household registration system of China's planned economy period. The continued existence of that system conflicts with the development of an integrated labour market. The current social security system, based on household registration and a large number of local pools, discriminates against migrant workers because of their mobility and the lack of mechanisms to transfer benefits between pools. As …
Whither Bali
The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside
The first revolution in the Chinese countryside was the land reform after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The second was decollectivization of agriculture and shift to the household responsibility system as a basis for agricultural production. This set the scene for the freeing of markets for farm products and linking of domestic markets to international markets; this 1996 book explores this third revolution. The first…
Agribusiness Reforms in China
Growth of China's rural enterprises
China's rural enterprises are economic units established by local government in the countryside or by the peasants and they operate outside the planning system. Rural enterprises have grown twice as fast as the rest of the economy since 1984. The rural enterprise sector has so far challenged the urban economy, in both product markets and markets for raw materials. What are the prospects for their relationship ‐ competition or cooperation? To answ…
Green Gold
The Market Mechanism and Economic Reforms in China
Remaking Peasant China. Jorgen Delman , Clemens Stubbe Ostergaard , Flemming Christiansen
Economic liberalisation in China
(1993). Economic liberalisation in China: the impact of and prospects for the “out–of–plan” sector. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 5-20
The Great Reversal
China's economic reforms and entry into Northeast Asian trade
The Arab Agricultural Revolution and Its Diffusion, 700–1100
The rapid spread of Islam into three continents in the seventh and eighth centuries was followed by the diffusion of an equally remarkable but less well documented agricultural revolution. Originating mainly in India, where heat, moisture and available crops all favored its development and where it had been practiced for some centuries before the rise of Islam, the new agriculture was carried by the Arabs or those they conquered into lands which,…
Quaternary Colluvial Stratigraphy, Archaeological Sequences and Palaeoenvironment in Swaziland, Southern Africa
Agriculture looks for ‘shoes that fit’
Transport in Transition
Water transport is a major feature of the traditional Chinese economy because of its magnitude and comparative efficiency. Yet this feature has all too often been ignored by scholars, with the notable exception of Japanese scholars. We cannot hope to gain any real conception of how the Chinese economy worked in the past, or works now, until we have a clearer picture of the circulation of men and commodities. In this circulation, water transport h…
Social Security for China's Migrant Workers – Providing for Old Age
The concept of “migrant workers” derives from the household registration system of China's planned economy period. The continued existence of that system conflicts with the development of an integrated labour market. The current social security system, based on household registration and a large number of local pools, discriminates against migrant workers because of their mobility and the lack of mechanisms to transfer benefits between pools. As …
New observations on the prehistory and palaeoclimate of the Late Pleistocene in southern Africa
Geomorphological evidence and associated stratified ‘open’ sites have enabled a reconstruction to be made of fluctuations in palaeoclimate and prehistoric activity during the Late Pleistocene over an area of Africa south of the Zambezi exceeding one million square kilometres. Radiocarbon dates from relevant sites in Swaziland suggest that the Middle Stone Age flourished over a large part of the interior of southern Africa between 30,000 and 20,00…
Steam Power and Sea Power
Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870–1914." Canadian Journal of History, 53(3), pp. 523–524
Geoparsing history
In the Trading Consequences project, historians, computational linguists, and computer scientists collaborated to develop a text mining system that extracts information from a vast amount of digitized published English-language sources from the “long nineteenth century” (1789 to 1914). The project focused on identifying relationships within the texts between commodities, geographical locations, and dates. The authors explain the methodology, uses…
New Structures in the Organization of Chinese Agriculture
THE EVOLUTION of agricultural reform in China since 1978 has been shaped by many different factors. At the central level, the policy decisions of the Party and government have provided the official framework. The decisions taken at the Party Central Committee's Third Plenum of December 1978 initiated the process and, at each significant stage, new central documents have summed up and sanctioned further developments. As has been clearly demonstrat…
The Role of the People's Commune in Rural Development in China
DURING THE TWENTY YEARS from 1958 to 1978, the framework for rural development throughout China was provided by the people's commune, a structure with a three-level system of ownership with the production team as its basis. In the vast majority of communes, the ownership of land, labour, basic farming-implements, and animals was vested in the team level, a unit with an average population of fewer than 170 people.' The team managed the farming tas…
Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties
Between 1850 and 1926 Ontario’s capital city, Toronto, grew from a small colonial port to one of the largest cities on the Great Lakes. In this article we introduce a rich time series dataset of ships entering the city’s port and the commodities they carried, explore its potential for urban metabolism research, and consider some of its limitations. We argue that the detail recorded in the ledgers of the Toronto Harbour Master affords multiple tem…
Economic liberalisation in China
(1993). Economic liberalisation in China: the impact of and prospects for the “out–of–plan” sector. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 5-20
An Introduction to the Physical Geography of the Kora Area, Central Kenya
Our Only Gospel
Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments
Book Reviews Perception and the Representative Design of Psychological Experiments. BY Egon Brunswik. (Berkeley : University of California Press. London : C.U.P. 1956. Pp. xii + 154. Price 37s 6d). A. J. Watson A. J. Watson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 8, Issue 33, October 1958, Pages 382–383, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216617 Published: 01 October 1958
The fear of faith
Back to Gold - and Silver1
Books of 'Materia Medica' in Toronto Libraries
A Note on the Pharmaceutical, Medical and Agricultural Books in the Forbes Collection
Early Farming Manuals in the University Library
Transport in Transition
Water transport is a major feature of the traditional Chinese economy because of its magnitude and comparative efficiency. Yet this feature has all too often been ignored by scholars, with the notable exception of Japanese scholars. We cannot hope to gain any real conception of how the Chinese economy worked in the past, or works now, until we have a clearer picture of the circulation of men and commodities. In this circulation, water transport h…
Turning Point in China. An Essay on the Cultural Revolution and Hundred Day War
Journal Article Turning Point in China. An Essay on the Cultural Revolution and Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University Get access Turning Point in China. An Essay on the Cultural Revolution. By William Hinton. New York, London: Monthly Review Press. 1972. 112 pp. $5.95. £2.50.Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. By William Hinton. New York, London: The Monthly Review Press. 1972. 288 pp. $7.95.…
The Arab Agricultural Revolution and Its Diffusion, 700–1100
The rapid spread of Islam into three continents in the seventh and eighth centuries was followed by the diffusion of an equally remarkable but less well documented agricultural revolution. Originating mainly in India, where heat, moisture and available crops all favored its development and where it had been practiced for some centuries before the rise of Islam, the new agriculture was carried by the Arabs or those they conquered into lands which,…
Chinese Economic Planning
Rural Employment and Manpower Problems in China. Curtis Ullerich
Current Trends in China's Agricultural Strategy
Mao Zedong and the Political Economy of the Border Region
The Production Responsibility System and the Future of Collective Farming
Centre-Provincial Economic Relations in China. Audrey Donnithorne
Private production and Chinese communes
City in the Desert
New observations on the prehistory and palaeoclimate of the Late Pleistocene in southern Africa
Geomorphological evidence and associated stratified ‘open’ sites have enabled a reconstruction to be made of fluctuations in palaeoclimate and prehistoric activity during the Late Pleistocene over an area of Africa south of the Zambezi exceeding one million square kilometres. Radiocarbon dates from relevant sites in Swaziland suggest that the Middle Stone Age flourished over a large part of the interior of southern Africa between 30,000 and 20,00…
Quaternary Colluvial Stratigraphy, Archaeological Sequences and Palaeoenvironment in Swaziland, Southern Africa
The Role of the People's Commune in Rural Development in China
DURING THE TWENTY YEARS from 1958 to 1978, the framework for rural development throughout China was provided by the people's commune, a structure with a three-level system of ownership with the production team as its basis. In the vast majority of communes, the ownership of land, labour, basic farming-implements, and animals was vested in the team level, a unit with an average population of fewer than 170 people.' The team managed the farming tas…
Briefly noted
L.G. Bagshawe (trans.). The Maniyadanabon of Shin Sandalinka, Data Paper No. 115, Southeast Asia Program, Cornelll University, Ithaca (N.Y.), 1981. 132 pp, foreword, translator's preface, glossary, preface to 1968 edition by U Myint Hswei. Paper: US$7.00. A. Chamid, The Poorest of the Poor: Three Case Studies from Indonesia, trans, by K. Foulcher, Center of Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper No. 26, Monash University, Melbourne, 1982. 42 pp, p…
Agriculture looks for ‘shoes that fit’
The Chinese Agricultural Economy. Randolph Barker , Radha Sinha , Beth Rose
Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World
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