Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: I undertook an investigation of how rural populations responded to a period of adverse climatic conditions in rural eastern Oklahoma during the 1930s, with particular interest in those households that adapted by migrating to rural California. This is not the first time that 19305 Oklahoma has been the subject of research into how people and communities adapt to difficult environmental conditions. In the wake of a 1985 conference entitled "Social Adaptation to Semi-Arid Environments" at the Center for Great Plains Studies in Lincoln, Great Plains Quarterly presented a series of papers by well-known scholars exploring human-environment interactions that gave rise to the "Dust Bowl" conditions of the 1930s and the consequent social impacts.
Source: Lincoln (University of Nebraska)
Author: Robert McLeman
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
Funder: Canada Research Chairs
OpenAlex ID: W64423197