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Responding to extremes: managing urban water scarcity in the late nineteenth-century Straits Settlements
In 1877, the major towns of the Straits Settlements—Singapore, George Town, Penang Island and Malacca—suffered a drought of exceptional magnitude. The drought’s natural instigator was the El Niño phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, a climatic phenomenon then not understood by contemporary obs...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33144897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00260-6 |