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" Drought and the human story : "
R.L. Heathcote
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BL
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642350
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Heathcote, R. L
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Drought and the human story : : braving the bull of heaven /\ R.L. Heathcote
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xvi, 301 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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9781409405016 (hardback)
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: 140940501X (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-298) and index
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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
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Droughts-- History
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Droughts-- Social aspects-- History
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Human ecology-- History
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World history
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363.34/92909
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QC929.24.H43 2013
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