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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: La Niña and the Making of Climate Optimism
    sub title: Remembering Rain
  name:
    name part: Miller, Julia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 288 p. 23 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change. It is the first study of the Australian relationship with La Niña and it explains how fundamental this relationship is to the climate change debate both locally and globally. While unease with the Australian environment was a hallmark of early settler relations with a new continent, this book argues that the climate itself quickly became a source of hope and linked to progress. Once observed, weather patterns coalesced into recognizable cycles of wet and dry years and Australians adopted a belief in the certainty of good seasons. It was this optimistic response to climate linked to La Niña that laid the groundwork for this relationship with the Australian environment. This book will appeal to scholars and students of the environmental humanities, history and science as well as anyone concerned about climate change.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Attitudes to Climate -- Chapter 2 Wastelands, Gardens, Hopes and Visions -- Chapter 3. Federated and Fed-up: Fragility after Fecundity (1895-1905) -- Chapter 4. Soaking in Hope: Provident Nature and Grand Schemes (1909-1929) -- Chapter 5. The Battle with Drought: Water the Essential Element (1940-1949) -- Chapter 6. A Run of Good Seasons (1950-57 and 1970-75) -- Chapter 7. Remembering Rain: The Ghost of Good Seasons Past (1960-1969) -- Chapter 8. A Change in the Weather. Conservation as the Catch Cry (1980-1990) -- Chapter 9. Climates of Opinion: The Role of La Niña and Permanent Change -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- .
  note: by Julia Miller.
  subject:
    topic: Islands of the Pacific-History
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Australasian History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Modern History
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  classification: DU1-950
  classification: 990
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319761411
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76141-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 190712
    record change date: 20191022102615.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-76141-1