Dry Times
Blueprint for a Red Land
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Description
With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work – and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike.
It shows that the desert offers solutions to the challenges of living in an uncertain and threatening age, teaching us new ways to live, manage scarce resources, and cope with climatic extremes, isolation and lack of water and energy. These lessons apply not only to remote regions, but also to cities and entire nations as humanity faces growing scarcity of vital resources.
With vivid examples drawn from Australia's desert life, outback people, animals and plants, Dry Times holds many positive lessons for our nation and humanity in a changing and resource-depleted world.
Listen to an interview on the ABC with author Mark Stafford Smith titled 'Living in a Dry Climate' about Dry Times on the program Bush Telegraph.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Dramatic deserts
Spreading deserts: past and future
What drives deserts?
Desert survivors
Living off a lean landscape
Dry but smart: tomorrow’s desert business
Surprising settlements
Tantalising technologies
Desert democrats
Deserts and our future
Epilogue
References
Endnotes
Index
Sample
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Readership
Outback residents, policymakers, resource managers, entrepreneurs, small business, futurists, planners, desert visitors and anyone concerned about global sustainability. National and state agencies concerned with natural resource management, regional development and supporting Aboriginal people in Australia. Internationally, people concerned with managing deserts more generally, and those with an interest in outback Australia.
Students working on arid/desert/rural issues in a wide variety of courses, but particularly geography, desert ecology and Indigenous affairs.
Author Information
Mark Stafford Smith is a desert ecologist and systems thinker, who has lived in Alice Springs and worked on desert research for the past 25 years, now resident in Canberra. He is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications on the ecology and management of outback Australia. He won the NT Research and Innovation Award in 2005 for his contribution to desert knowledge, and sits on several national and international advisory groups related to climate change and desertification.
Julian Cribb is a science communicator and writer and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is a former newspaper editor and director of National Awareness for CSIRO. He holds 32 awards for journalism.
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