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.
- ISBN10 6613155470
- ISBN13 9786613155474
- Publish Date 3 December 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint CSIRO Publishing
- Format eBook
- Pages 185
- Language English