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'Not Just Drought.' Drought, Rural Change And More: Perspectives From Rural Farming Communities, Louise E. Askew, Meg Sherval, Pauline M. Mcguirk
'Not Just Drought.' Drought, Rural Change And More: Perspectives From Rural Farming Communities, Louise E. Askew, Meg Sherval, Pauline M. Mcguirk
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The 'Big Dry', a prolonged dry period in Australia from 1997 to 2009, seared much of the Murray-Darling Basin region and resulted in large agricultural losses, degraded river systems and increased uncertainty in rural communities although climate change in the form of drought is not new to rural Australia (Wei et al . 2012). For many years, generations of Australian farmers and farming communities have battled such climatic extremes. However, the most recent drought event competed with a myriad of changes to their lives and as such, the façade of stoicism has slowly begun to crack. This chapter examines the …