| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-298) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012018720 |
| ISBN | 9781409405016 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781409405023 (ebk - PDF) |
| ISBN | 9781409472650 (ebk - ePUB) |
