Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones

Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781925495430
Author: Rebecca Jones
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Monash University Press
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400 pages
Period: 19th, 20th and 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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, focusing 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. (back cover)

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