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Slow Catastrophes

- Living with Drought in Australia
Af: Rebecca Jones Engelsk Paperback

Slow Catastrophes

- Living with Drought in Australia
Af: Rebecca Jones Engelsk Paperback
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Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will increase both the frequency and severity of these phenomena. Stories of drought are familiar to us, accompanied by images of dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth, farmers leaving their lands, and rural economic stagnation. Drought is indeed a catastrophe, played out slowly. But as Rebecca Jones reveals in this sensitive account of families living on the Australian land, the story of drought in this driest continent is as much about resilience, adaptation, strength of community, ingenious planning for, and creative responses to, persistent absences of rainfall. The histories of eight farming families, stretching from the 1870s to the 1950s, are related, with a focus on private lives and inner thoughts, revealed by personal diaries. The story is brought up to the present with the author’s discussions with contemporary farmers and pastoralists. In greatly enriching our understanding of the human dimensions of drought, Slow Catastrophes provides us with vital resources to face our ecological future.
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Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will increase both the frequency and severity of these phenomena. Stories of drought are familiar to us, accompanied by images of dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth, farmers leaving their lands, and rural economic stagnation. Drought is indeed a catastrophe, played out slowly. But as Rebecca Jones reveals in this sensitive account of families living on the Australian land, the story of drought in this driest continent is as much about resilience, adaptation, strength of community, ingenious planning for, and creative responses to, persistent absences of rainfall. The histories of eight farming families, stretching from the 1870s to the 1950s, are related, with a focus on private lives and inner thoughts, revealed by personal diaries. The story is brought up to the present with the author’s discussions with contemporary farmers and pastoralists. In greatly enriching our understanding of the human dimensions of drought, Slow Catastrophes provides us with vital resources to face our ecological future.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781925495430
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1925495434
Udg. Dato: 1 aug 2017
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 156mm
Forlag: Monash University Publishing
Oplagsdato: 1 aug 2017
Forfatter(e): Rebecca Jones
Forfatter(e) Rebecca Jones


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ISBN-13 9781925495430


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 235mm


Højde 156mm


Udg. Dato 1 aug 2017


Oplagsdato 1 aug 2017


Forlag Monash University Publishing

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