Beyond drought : people, policy and perspectives /

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 toward...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fisher, Melanie, Botterill, Linda Courtenay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Collingwood, Vic. : London : CSIRO ; Eurospan, 2003.
Subjects:
Droughts > Australia.
Droughts > Social aspects > Australia.
Droughts > Economic aspects > Australia.
Sécheresses > Australie.
Sécheresses > Aspect social > Australie.
Sécheresses > Aspect économique > Australie.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Droughts.
Droughts > Economic aspects.
Droughts > Social aspects.
Australia.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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