Drought in Bulgaria: A Contemporary Analog for Climate Change

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Bulgaria suffered severe drought from 1982 to 1994. Knight (geography, Pennsylvania State University) presents research resulting from collaboration between the Center for Integrated Regional Assessment at Pennsylvania State University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The book demonstrates that future threats to the environment and society as a result of climate change and global warming are real, and highlights the importance of looking at the social, economic, and cultural contexts in which global environmental change takes place.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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Bulgaria suffered severe drought from 1982 to 1994. The Center for Integrated Regional Assessment at Penn State and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences collaborated to research this drought period as an analogy for future climate. This book shows their assessment of what can be learnt from the impacts of and responses to contemporary drought in Bulgaria.


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