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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 by R.L. Heathcote. YT2025 M08 Droughts History Droughts Social aspects History Human ecology History World history QC929.24 H437 D 2013 9781409405016 9781409405023 9781409472650 SDU 120525