McLeman, RA, Dupre, J, Berrang Ford, L et al. (3 more authors) (2014) What we learned from the Dust Bowl: lessons in science, policy, and adaptation. Population and Environment, 35 (4). pp. 417-440. ISSN 0199-0039
Abstract
This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the Dust Bowl era or the Dirty Thirties. Recent events, including the 2008 financial crisis, severe droughts in the US corn belt, and the release of a popular documentary film, have spawned a resurgence in public interest in the Dust Bowl. Events of the Dust Bowl era have also proven in recent years to be of considerable interest to scholars researching phenomena related to global environmental change, including atmospheric circulation, drought modeling, land management, institutional behavior, adaptation processes, and human migration. In this review, we draw out common themes in terms of not only what natural and social scientists have learned about the Dust Bowl era itself, but also how insights gained from the study of that period are helping to enhance our understanding of climate–human relations more generally.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Author(s) 2013. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
Keywords: | Climate adaptation; Dirty Thirties; Drought; Dust Bowl; Great Plains; Great Depression; |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2018 10:31 |
Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2018 10:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11111-013-0190-z |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:123000 |