ISBN: 9781599201139

Description: 32 pages : color illustrations.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Natural disasters
• Droughts
• What is drought?
• Disaster file : Australia, 1982-1983
• Different types of drought
• Disaster file : Sahel, Africa, 1967-1988
• What causes drought?
• Effects of drought
• Fires and dust storms
• Disaster file : dust bowl, United States, 1930s
• Measuring drought
• Managing drought
• Disaster file : Rajasthan, India, 1998-2001
• Disaster relief
• Disaster files at a glance.

LCCN: 2007004659

Control Number: 348045

Series:

• Natural disasters
• Natural disasters.

Subjects:

• Droughts -- Juvenile literature.
• Natural disasters -- Juvenile literature.