Dry Times Blueprint for a Red Land

Name: Dry Times Blueprint for a Red Land
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ISBN: 9780643095274

ISBN-10: 0643095276

ISBN-13: 9780643095274

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Authors: Mark Stafford-Smith, Julian Cribb

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With the knowledge from their deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. The desert is teaching them new ways to live, manage slender resources, and cope with lack of water and energy, harsh climate and isolation. These issues will confront most of the worldâ€™s citizens in the 21st Century, as climate change, population growth and resource scarcity impact on society. The deserts also teach what it is to be Australian, how to dwell within the rhythms and constraints of a vast continent that is three quarters arid. Australians find it hard to decide about the Outback: is it remote and unassailableâ€”or at the core of their national identity? Endlessly Australians debate whether they…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Derek Hayesis a noted historian and the author of numerous historical atlases, includingThe Historical Atlas of the Northern American Railroad, Historical Atlas of the United States, andHistorical Atlas of the American West, all from UC Press.Julian Cribbis an award-winning journalist and science writer and the author ofThe White Death.