TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Drought, drying and mental health: Lessons from recent experiences for future risk‐lessening policies JO - Australian journal of rural health A1 - McMichael, Anthony J. SP - 227 EP - 228 VL - 19 IS - 5 N2 - Rural and Indigenous communities in many regions of the world are bearing the brunt of early human-induced climate change. The dust has, at last, begun to settle on the primary debate over climate change and its human input. However, as global climate change progresses over coming decades, dust, smoke, flames, water and wind will impinge more damagingly on many of Australia's rural and remote communities. Property, harvests, incomes, jobs and community vitality are at risk. More troubling, there are great risks to physical and, in particular, mental health.

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