Drought and the human story : braving the bull of Heaven /
by R.L. Heathcote.
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.
- 301 p. : ill.
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. HKBU library
YT2025 M08
9781409405016 9781409405023 9781409472650
Droughts--History. Droughts--Social aspects--History. Human ecology--History. World history.