Chapter ID: CBB931334891

Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s (2014)

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Offering important new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization. The contributions gathered here consider a wide range of interrelated topics, among them the use of scientific evidence in historical research, the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development, and changing understandings of climate, including the development of "folk" and government meteorologies. They reveal Australasia to be a remarkably varied and fertile area for analyzing cultural responses to climate as well as the wider social ramifications of historical climatic events.

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Authors & Contributors
Beattie, James
Henry, Matthew
O'Gorman, Emily
Garden, Don
Bostock, Helen C.
Lorrey, Andrew M.
Journals
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Technology and Culture
Australian Historical Studies
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
Oxford University Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Concepts
Colonialism
Environment
Climate change
Geography
Weather
Agriculture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Australia
New Zealand
Asia
South Asia
Timor Island
Indonesia
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