Slow Catastrophes : Living with Drought in Australia

Name: Slow Catastrophes : Living with Drought in Australia
Brand: Monash University Publishing
Price: 33.75 AUD
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By: Rebecca Jones

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Paperback | 1 August 2017

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352 Pages

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15.3 x 23.4 x 3.1

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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.

About the Author

Rebecca Jones is an environmental and Australian historian in the School of History and Centre for Environmental History at The Australian National University. She is author of Green Harvest: a History of Organic Farming and Gardening in Australia and has published widely in environmental history, Australian history and rural health and wellbeing.

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