| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : color illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Australia is the only country on the planet that has a non-annual climate cycle and this poses real challenges for an agricultural sector based on practices which were developed for the relative predictability of a European climate. Since 1989 official Government policy in Australia has moved towards acceptance of this reality and rejected the notion that drought is a natural disaster in favour of a policy approach based on risk management. |
| Contents |
Foreword and acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Living in the Australian environment; 2 Climate and drought in Australia; 3 Government responses to drought in Australia; 4 Media representations and public perceptions of drought; 5 Australian drought as lived experience: Social and community impacts; 6 Economic aspects of drought and drought policy; 7 Linking environments, decision-making and policy in handling climatic variability; 8 Perceptions of drought risk: The farmer, the scientist and the policy economist. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Droughts -- Australia.
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Droughts. |
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Australia. |
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Droughts -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Droughts -- Social aspects. |
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Droughts -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Droughts -- Economic aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fisher, Melanie.
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Botterill, Linda Courtenay.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beyond drought. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO ; London : Eurospan, 2003 0643069542 (OCoLC)53391863 |
| ISBN |
0643090975 (electronic book) |
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9780643090972 (electronic book) |
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1283154293 |
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9781283154291 |
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