TY - BOOK AU - Heathcote,R.L. TI - Drought and the human story: braving the bull of Heaven SN - 9781409405016 AV - QC929.24 H437 D 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Droughts KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Human ecology KW - World history N1 - 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 ER -