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UNINA9910462502603321 |
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Autore |
Sheffield Justin |
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Drought : past problems and future scenarios / / Justin Sheffield and Eric F. Wood |
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London ; ; Washington, D.C. : , : Earthscan, , 2011 |
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1-283-71259-8 |
1-84977-525-7 |
1-136-54041-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Droughts - United States |
Drought relief - United States |
Water quality management |
Water-supply - Management |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Drought: Past Problems and Future Scenarios; Copyright; Contents; Figures, Tables, Boxes and Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Drought Today; Drought and Global Change; The Motivation for this Book; An Overview of the Book; Chapter 2. What is Drought?; The Hazard of Drought; Defining Drought; Chapter 3. The Science of Drought; Introduction; The Hydrological Cycle; Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Hydrology; What Causes Drought?; Summary; Chapter 4. Quantifying Drought; Introduction; Drought Data; Monitoring Drought from Space; Modelling Drought |
Palaeoclimate Data: Reconstructing Drought over MillenniaQuantifying Drought: Characteristics and Indices; Summary; Chapter 5. Palaeo-drought: The Occurrence of Drought over Past Millennia; Introduction; Climate of the Holocene; Drought in the Holocene; The Last 2000 Years; The Last 1000 Years; Drought in Recent Centuries; Global Mechanisms and Connections; Summary; Chapter 6. Drought in the 20th Century; Introduction; Climate of the 20th Century; The Global |
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Extent of 20th-Century Drought; Characteristics of Global Drought; Regional Drought over the 20th Century |
Global Variability in Soil Moisture and Links with Large-Scale Climate VariabilityGlobal Variability in Drought and Links with Large-Scale Climate Variability; Summary; Chapter 7. Major Drought Events of the 20th Century; Introduction; North America; South America; Europe; Africa; Asia; Oceania; The Most Severe Droughts of the 20th Century; Chapter 8. Drought in the 21st Century; Introduction; Mechanisms of Changes in Drought; Climate Models, Emission Scenarios and Future Projections; Drought Estimation; Projected Future Changes in Drought; Potential Impacts of Future Drought |
Chapter 9. Summary and RecommendationsConclusions; Index; Plates |
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Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world. Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing population, it represents a potentially disastrous threat to water supplies, agriculture and food production, leading to famine and environmental degradation. Yet predicting drought is fraught with difficulty.The aim of this book is to provide a review of the historical occurrence of global drought, particularly during the 20th century and assess the likely potential changes over the 21st century under climate change. This |
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UNINA9910787984203321 |
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The Lordship of the Isles / / edited by Richard D. Oram |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Northern World, , 1569-1462 ; ; Volume 68 |
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Nobility - Scotland |
Clans - Scotland - History |
Scotland History 1057-1603 |
Highlands (Scotland) History |
Hebrides (Scotland) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material / Richard D. Oram -- Introduction: A Celtic Dirk at Scotland’s Back? The Lordship of the Isles in Mainstream Scottish Historiography since 1828 / Richard D. Oram -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Climate, Weather and the Rise of the Lordship of the Isles / Richard D. Oram -- The MacDonald Lordship and the Bruce Dynasty, c.1306–c.1371 / Michael A. Penman -- From the River Farrar to the Loire Valley: The MacDonald Lord of the Isles, the Scottish Crown, and International Diplomacy, 1428–1438 / Lachlan Nicholson -- Ghille Chattan Mhor and Clann Mhic an Tòisich Lands in the Clann Dhomhnail Lordship of Lochaber / Alasdair Ross -- Bishops, Priests, Monks and Their Patrons: The Lords of the Isles and the Church / Sarah Thomas -- ‘Contumaciously Absent’?: The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown / Sonja Cameron -- A Maritime Dominion – Sea-Power and the Lordship / Colin Martin -- West Highland Heraldry and the Lordship of the Isles / Alastair Campbell of Airds -- Organising a Lordship: The Castles of the MacDonald's of Dunivaig and the Glens / T.E. McNeill -- The Lordship of the Isles: Identity Through Materiality / David H. Caldwell -- A Spent Force?: The Clan Donald in the Aftermath of 1493 / Alison Cathcart -- Castle Tioram and the MacDonald's of Clanranald: A |
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Western Seaboard Castle in Context / Geoffrey Stell -- Bibliography / Richard D. Oram -- Index / Richard D. Oram. |
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In The Lordship of the Isles , twelve specialists offer new insights on the rise and fall of the MacDonald's of Islay and the greatest Gaelic lordship of later medieval Scotland. Portrayed most often as either the independently-minded last great patrons of Scottish Gaelic culture or as dangerous rivals to the Stewart kings for mastery of Scotland, this collection navigates through such opposed perspectives to re-examine the politics, culture, society and connections of Highland and Hebridean Scotland from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It delivers a compelling account of a land and people caught literally and figuratively between two worlds, those of the Atlantic and mainland Scotland, and of Gaelic and Anglophone culture. Contributors are David Caldwell, Sonja Cameron, Alastair Campbell, Alison Cathcart, Colin Martin, Tom McNeill, Lachlan Nicholson, Richard Oram, Michael Penman, Alasdair Ross, Geoffrey Stell and Sarah Thomas. |
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