Heathcote, R. L.

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.

QC929.24 / H437 D 2013