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Rebecca Jones

Rebecca Jones

Rebecca Jones is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental history at the Australian National University where she is researching responses to drought in Australia. She is the author of Green Harvest: A History of Organic Farming and Gardening in Australia (CSIRO Publishing, 2010). She is currently researching human responses to drought in nineteenth and twentieth Australia.

Rebecca Jones reviews 'Climate, Science, and Colonization' edited by James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman, and Matthew Henry

June-July 2015, no. 372 28 May 2015
Weather and climate are fascinating enigmas, their allure enhanced by their intangibility; shadows hovering in the background and yet profoundly shaping human history. Climate is always both present and absent, and its importance unnoticed. Geoffrey Blainey observed more than forty years ago that climate was a neglected player in Australian history. Perhaps inspired by the urgency of global clima ... (read more)