TY - BOOK AU - Heathcote,R L TI - Drought and the human story : braving the bull of heaven SN - 9781409405016 U1 - 363.3492909 23 PY - 2012/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Droughts KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Human ecology KW - World history N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -