Drought and the human story [electronic resource] : braving the bull of heaven / by R.L. Heathcote.

By: Heathcote, R. LContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012Description: xvi, 301 pISBN: 9781409405023 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Droughts -- History | Droughts -- Social aspects -- History | Human ecology -- History | World historyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.34/92909 LOC classification: QC929.24 | .H43 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Drought in World History -- Defining Drought -- Documenting Drought -- The Causes of Drought -- The Scope of Drought Impacts -- Society at Bay? Managing the Droughts -- Drought as a Technological Hazard? The Mitigation Strategies of the Industrialized Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Drought Reporting and Drought Relief as Moral Hazards? -- Drought in World Literature, Art, Philosophy and Community -- The Scientists and Drought -- The Coming Droughts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Drought in World History -- Defining Drought -- Documenting Drought -- The Causes of Drought -- The Scope of Drought Impacts -- Society at Bay? Managing the Droughts -- Drought as a Technological Hazard? The Mitigation Strategies of the Industrialized Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Drought Reporting and Drought Relief as Moral Hazards? -- Drought in World Literature, Art, Philosophy and Community -- The Scientists and Drought -- The Coming Droughts.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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