Drought and the human story braving the bull of heaven /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heathcote, R. L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.