From Disaster Response to Risk Management
Subtitle: Australia's National Drought Policy (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)
Contributors: Linda C. Botterill (Editor); Donald A. Wilhite (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781402031236
Subjects: Economics; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Earth Sciences - Geography; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Management - General; Economics - General; Business & Economics-Economics - General; Droughts; Management; Science / Environmental Science; Science-Earth Sciences - Geography; agricultural policy; drought; natural hazard management; public policy; risk management
First sentence: For 100 years after the Europeans arrived in Australia, their painters portrayed a landscape which harked back to the soft lights of Europe, their poets wrote wistfully of their respective mother countries, and their music was folk songs from rural Britain.