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Endurance
Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought

Deb Anderson, Monash University CSIRO Publishing Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change. The book opens with the physical impacts, science, politics and economics of drought and climate change in...

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New book: Running Out? Water in Western Australia

Ruth A. Morgan University of Western Australia Press, 320 pp, PB, February 2015. For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear...

CFP Human migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention (Durham, UK) – 2015

28 June-1 July 2015, Durham University Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor David Held (Durham University) Professor Wendy Brown (UC, Berkeley) Professor Claire Colebrook (Penn State) Professor Walter Kälin (University of Bern) Conference website: http://dogweb.dur.ac.uk/costconference New submission deadline: 12 December 2014 Submission Information: Submit paper session proposals to climate.migration@durham.ac.uk with the subject line ‘Durham Conference’. Conference...