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Publisher : Aust. Bureau of Statistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Year Book Australia, 1988, No. 71 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deb Anderson
Publisher : Science in Society
ISBN 13 : 9781486301201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Endurance written by Deb Anderson and published by Science in Society. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on what drought and climate change mean to rural Australians - in their words.
Author : Linda Courtenay Botterill
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 9780643069541
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (695 download)
Download or read book Beyond Drought written by Linda Courtenay Botterill and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 towards acceptance of this reality and rejected the notion that drought is a natural disaster in favour of a policy approach based on risk management.
Author : Osvaldo E. Sala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461212243
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Methods in Ecosystem Science written by Osvaldo E. Sala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology at the ecosystem level has both necessitated and benefited from new methods and technologies as well as those adapted from other disciplines. With the ascendancy of ecosystem science and management, the need has arisen for a comprehensive treatment of techniques used in this rapidly-growing field. Methods in Ecosystem Science answers that need by synthesizing the advantages, disadvantages and tradeoffs associated with the most commonly used techniques in both aquatic and terrestrial research. The book is divided into sections addressing carbon and energy dynamics, nutrient and water dynamics, manipulative ecosystem experiements and tools to synthesize our understanding of ecosystems. Detailed information about various methods will help researchers choose the most appropriate methods for their particular studies. Prominent scientists discuss how tools from a variety of disciplines can be used in ecosystem science at different scales.
Author : Michael McKernan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741142341
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Drought written by Michael McKernan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought is a fact of life in parts of Australia but not readily acknowledged as an integral part of the landscape. This is a story told through the eyes of those who have lived through numerous droughts, telling of their suffering and endurance.
Author : Ian Prosser
Publisher : CSIRO
ISBN 13 : 0643103287
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Water written by Ian Prosser and published by CSIRO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the status of Australia.s water resources and their future prospects, the many values we hold for water, and the potential for using water more effectively to meet the growing demands of cities, farmers, industries, and the environment.
Author : Thea Astley
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192562661X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Drylands written by Thea Astley and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be a book for the world’s last reader, she decided, chewing pen-end over an open exercise book. In the dying town of Drylands, Janet Deakin sells papers to lonely locals. At night, in her flat above the newsagency, she attempts to write a novel for a world in which no one reads—‘full of people, she envisaged, glaring at a screen that glared glassily back.’ Drylands is the story of the townsfolk’s harsh, violent lives. Trenchant and brilliant, Thea Astley’s final novel is a dark portrait of outback Australia in decline. Thea Astley was born in Brisbane in 1925. Her first novel, Girl with a Monkey, was published in 1958 and her third, The Well Dressed Explorer (1962), won the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Many notable books followed, among them the groundbreaking A Kindness Cup (1974), which addressed frontier massacres of Indigenous Australians, and It’s Raining in Mango (1987). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin winner. Her fiction is distinguished by vivid imagery and metaphor; a complex, ironic style; and a desire to highlight oppression and social injustice. One of the most distinctive and influential Australian novelists of the twentieth century, Astley died in 2004. ‘It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion.’ Herald Sun 'Wonderful.' Australian
Author : Ronald D. Brunner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136250
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Adaptive Governance written by Ronald D. Brunner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing case studies, the authors of this work examine how adaptive governance breaks the gridlock in natural-resource policy. Unlike scientific management, which relies on science as the foundation for policies made through a central authority, adaptive governance integrates other types of knowledge into the decision-making process. The authors emphasize the need for open decision making, recognition of multiple interests in questions of natural-resource policy, and an integrative, interpretive science to replace traditional reductive, experimental science.
Author : Kurt Schwabe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940076636X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions written by Kurt Schwabe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought awareness and experience, this book shows how scientists, water managers, and policy makers approach drought and water scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions of Spain, Mexico, Australia, South Africa and the United States.
Author : Annabel Crabb
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0857984268
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Wife Drought, The written by Annabel Crabb and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wife Drought is about women, men, family and work. Written in Annabel Crabb's inimitable style, it's full of candid and funny stories from the author's work in and around politics and the media, historical nuggets about the role of 'The Wife' in Australia, and intriguing research about the attitudes that pulse beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia.
Author : Rebecca Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925495430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Slow Catastrophes written by Rebecca Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our time. 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. 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, with a focus on the private lives and inner thoughts revealed by personal diaries. Also included are 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. *** Listen to the podcast interview with author Rebecca Jones by Jason Schulman, New Books Network, October 6, 2017, newbooksnetwork.com (Series: Australian History) [Subject: Environmental Studies, Australian Studies, History]
Author : Donald A. Wilhite
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461532248
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Drought Assessment, Management, and Planning: Theory and Case Studies written by Donald A. Wilhite and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought is an insidious hazard of nature. It originates from a deficiency of precipitation that results in a water shortage for some activity or some group. Africa has suffered the most dramatic impacts from drought during the past several decades the recent droughts in the southern and eastern portions of the continent are testimony to that fact. However, the vulnerability of all nations to extended periods of water shortage has been underscored again and again during this same time period. In the past decade alone, droughts have occurred with considerable frequency and severity in most of the developed and developing world. Significant parts of North and South America, Australia, Europe, and Asia have been plagued recently by extended periods of severe drought, often resulting in far-reaching economic, social, and environmental consequences. In the western United States, for example, vast areas are facing the prospects of a sixth or seventh consecutive year of drought in 1993. Concern by members ofthe scientific and policy communities about the inability of governments to respond in an effective and timely manner to drought and its associated impacts exists worldwide. Numerous "calls for action" for improved drought planning and management have been issued by national governments, professional organizations, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and others. The United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (lDNDR) is yet another example of an international call for action to reduce the impacts that result from drought and other natural hazards.
Author : Jackie French
Publisher : Scholastic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781743817599
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Drought written by Jackie French and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I remember when rain stopped, When day by day the water dropped, All across a sun-bleached land, Drought spread its withered, deadly hand. From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire and Cyclone comes Droughta moving story about the devastating effects drought has on many Australians and their farms.
Author : Chunzai Wang
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Earth's Climate written by Chunzai Wang and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 2004-01-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 147. It is more than 30 years since the publication of Jacob Bjerknes' groundbreaking ideas made clear the importance of ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics. It is now more than 20 years since the arrival of a massive El Niño in the fall of 1982 set off a cascade of observational and theoretical studies. During the following decades, the climate research community has made exceptional progress in refining our capacity to observe earth's climate and theorize about it, including new satellite-based and in situ monitoring systems and coupled ocean-atmosphere predictive numerical models. Of equal importance. is the expanding scope ofresearch, which now reaches far beyond the Pacific El Niño and includes climate phenomena in other ocean basins. In order to cover the now global context of ocean-atmosphere interaction we have organized this monograph around five principal themes, each introduced by one or more broad overview papers. Theme I covers interaction and climate variability in the Pacific sector, with extensive discussion of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and with the possible causes and consequences of variability on both shorter and longer timescales. Theme II is devoted to interaction in the Atlantic sector. This basin exhibits complex behavior, reflecting its geographic location between two major zones of convection as well as neighboring the tropical Pacific. Theme III reviews the recent, exciting progress in our understanding of climate variability in the Indian sector. Theme IV addresses the interaction between the tropics and the extratropics, which are linked through the presence of shallow meridional overturning cells in the ocean. Finally, Theme V discusses overarching issues of cross-basin interaction.
Author : Tor Hundloe
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643106642
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Value of Water in a Drying Climate written by Tor Hundloe and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we making the best use of water? How do we judge this? Are there trade-offs between upstream and downstream water use? What are these and how are they resolved? Disputes over water allocations are, second to climate change, the dominant environmental and public policy issues of the present era. We are called upon to resolve such controversies using the principles of sustainable development, which integrates ecology, economics and ethics. This timely book establishes a template for all types of resource allocation disputes, whether in Australia or overseas. An expert team of ecologists, economists and sustainability experts spent three years interviewing people in the Little Swanport catchment, seeking answers to the optimal allocation of water on the Tasmanian East Coast. The hinterland of this area produces some of the most valuable merino wool in the world, the estuary grows mouth-watering oysters, and much of the land is in near-pristine condition, providing very valuable biodiversity resources. The book is written in an easy-to-read style and gradually evolves to become the story of everyday life of one small Australian catchment. It is about people living in rural settings in the upper catchment with soils and rainfall suitable for farming; people residing in coastal settlements in the lower catchment; people working and relaxing in the estuary where fishing and aquaculture occur; and people and their business in adjacent towns.
Author : Brian D. Wardlow
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439835578
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Remote Sensing of Drought written by Brian D. Wardlow and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring and early warning around the world. The first book to focus on remote sensing and drought monitoring, it brings together a wealth of information that has been scattered throughout the literature and across many disciplines. Featuring contributions by leading scientists, it assembles a cross-section of globally applicable techniques that are currently operational or have potential to be operational in the near future. The book explores a range of applications for monitoring four critical components of the hydrological cycle related to drought: vegetation health, evapotranspiration, soil moisture and groundwater, and precipitation. These applications use remotely sensed optical, thermal, microwave, radar, and gravity data from instruments such as AMSR-E, GOES, GRACE, MERIS, MODIS, and Landsat and implement several advanced modeling and data assimilation techniques. Examples show how to integrate this information into routine drought products. The book also examines the role of satellite remote sensing within traditional drought monitoring, as well as current challenges and future prospects. Improving drought monitoring is becoming increasingly important in addressing a wide range of societal issues, from food security and water scarcity to human health, ecosystem services, and energy production. This unique book surveys innovative remote sensing approaches to provide you with new perspectives on large-area drought monitoring and early warning.
Author : Ben Cook
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548907
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Drought written by Ben Cook and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is fundamental to all life. From the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, to the extreme water shortages that have struck California in recent years, modern societies often take its abundance for granted until it unexpectedly becomes scarce. Drought is one of the many problems anthropogenic climate change may exacerbate, but it is also a complex phenomenon at the intersection of a range of scientific disciplines and public policy issues. In this innovative book, Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Cook introduces readers to the hydroclimate and its components, explaining the global water cycle, the earth’s climate system, and the distribution of water resources. He discusses drought dynamics and variability over time, the climatological context and ecological effects, and environmental issues such as desertification, land degradation, and groundwater depletion. He also considers the socioeconomic impacts of drought and the role of drought risk management policy, especially in light of how climate change is expected to affect drought risk and severity. Cook gives special attention to paleoclimate and the role of drought in the crises of ancient civilizations. A scientifically comprehensive and approachable overview of water issues throughout the world, Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.
