Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2015

Abstract

History as a subject for higher education (and beyond) has often been criticized for failing to be relevant to the demands of the twenty-first century. This paper argues that not only is learning from our past a valuable exercise in any time period, but that historical research can provide modern sciences with the much needed data and contextual analysis crucial to understanding many of the problems facing our world today. Based on research from historic archives in the UK and Malaysia, this paper explains how historians are recovering historic data invaluable to modern climate science, and demonstrates just how this data is being used.

Keywords

History, Climate, Environment, Data Recovery

Discipline

Environmental Sciences | History

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

e-Bangi: Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities

Volume

10

Issue

1

First Page

1

Last Page

7

ISSN

1823-884X

Publisher

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Additional URL

https://journalarticle.ukm.my/9343/

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