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The arid lands : their use and abuse
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ISBN: 0582300487 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Longman

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Drought and the human story : braving the bull of heaven
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ISBN: 1317147758 1283859475 1409405028 9781409405023 9781409472650 1409472655 9781409405016 140940501X 9781315578194 9781317147749 9781317147756 9781138248748 1315578190 Year: 2012 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate,

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This study of the human conceptualization of drought in a global setting examines the historical record from early human society through to present day concerns to explore how and why attitudes to drought have changed and why the mitigation of its impacts has become more difficult. To offer a more lasting strategy for protection against drought, the author argues that physical scientists need to combine their skills in understanding global ecology and their technological expertise with the social scientists' awareness of the socio-economic, political and cultural contexts in which modern socie

Australia
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ISBN: 0582481791 Year: 1975 Publisher: London Longman

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Human geography --- Landscape changes --- Nature --- Change, Landscape --- Geomorphology --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Effect of human beings on --- Australia --- New Holland --- Osṭralyah --- Usṭralyah --- Australie --- Avstralii︠a︡ --- Nova Hollandia --- Commonwealth of Australia --- Australiese Gemenebes --- أستراليا --- Usturāliyā --- كومنولث الأسترالي --- Kūmunwālth al-Usturālī --- Аўстралія --- Aŭstralii︠a︡ --- Australija --- Австралийски съюз --- Avstraliĭski sŭi︠u︡z --- Австралийският съюз --- Avstraliĭskii︠a︡t sŭi︠u︡z --- Mancomunitat d'Austràlia --- Awstralya --- Komonwelt sa Awstralya --- Australské společenství --- Australien --- Aŭstralio --- Komunejo de Aŭstralio --- Komunaĵo de Aŭstralio --- Austraalia --- Austraalia Ühendus --- Αυστραλία --- Aystralia --- Κοινοπολιτεία της Αυστραλίας --- Koinopoliteia tēs Aystralias --- אוסטרליה --- קהיליית אוסטרליה --- Ḳehiliyat Osṭralyah --- ʻAukekulelia --- Ausztrália --- Ausztrál Államszövetség --- Ástralía --- Samveldið Ástralía --- Negara Persemakmuran Australia --- Persemakmuran Australia --- Austrālijas Savienība --- Australijos Sandrauga --- Австралија --- Avstralija --- Комонвелтот на Австралија --- Komonveltot na Avstralija --- Државна заедница Австралија --- Državna zaednica Avstralija --- Aostralia --- Komanwel Australia --- Awstralja --- Ahitereiria --- Whakaminenga o Ahitereiria --- Австралия --- Австралийский Союз --- Avstraliĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Mancomunidad de Australia --- Awstralia --- Cymanwlad Awstralia --- Australian Government --- Government of Australia --- オーストラリア --- Ōsutoraria --- Geography. --- Австралийски съюз --- Австралийският съюз --- Австралийский Союз

Monitoring and predicting agricultural drought
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ISBN: 0197562108 0190289961 1280532858 0198036787 1601196814 1433701073 9780195162349 019516234X 9780198036784 1423720261 9781423720263 9781601196811 9781280532856 9786610532858 6610532850 9781433701078 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Accurate monitoring and prediction of agricultural droughts helps manage them, minimize losses attributed to them, and mitigate their extreme forms, which some countries face even today. This book presents the basic concepts of agricultural drought, various remote sensing techniques used to monitor them, and efforts by international organisations to check them.

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