1 online resource (1 volume) : color illustrations
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
Summary
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
