Parched: cultures of drought in regional Victoria

干旱是澳大利亚气候的一个反复出现的特征，对澳大利亚的历史、文化和身份认同产生了重大影响。该项目旨在产生关于干旱文化的新知识：维多利亚人生活、想象、理解和表现干旱的方式发生了变化。它将采用创新的环境人文方法，将文化和媒体实践与气候历史联系起来，建立干旱文化的新的跨学科模式。预期成果包括更深入地了解干旱的文化遗产及其对当前环境做法和政策的影响。惠益应包括为未来缺水时期的文化和社会复原力确定新的资源。

Drought is a recurrent feature of Australian climate and a formative influence on Australian history, culture and identity. The project aims to generate new knowledge about the cultures of drought: the changing ways Victorians have lived with, imagined, understood and represented drought. Using an innovative environmental humanities approach, it will link cultural and media practices with climate histories to establish a new interdisciplinary model of drought cultures. Expected outcomes include a deeper understanding of the cultural legacies of drought and their impacts on current environmental practice and policy. Benefits should include identifying new resources for cultural and social resilience for future periods of water scarcity.