Drought and the human story
Subtitle: braving the bull of heaven
By: by R.L. Heathcote
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781409405016
Subjects: World history; Human ecology; Droughts; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Drought in World History; title: Defining Drought; title: Documenting Drought; title: The Causes of Drought; title: The Scope of Drought Impacts; title: Society at Bay? Managing the Droughts; title: Drought as a Technological Hazard? The Mitigation Strategies of the Industrialized Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; title: Drought Reporting and Drought Relief as Moral Hazards?; title: Drought in World Literature, Art, Philosophy and Community; title: The Scientists and Drought; title: The Coming Droughts.