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A lack of water in stores such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs and aquifers (water stored underground naturally)
I would say that herding and livestock would not be a major economic activity in SE Asia and that logging, farming and manufacturing are important economic activities. For example, farming produces rice and also tea in this part of the world.
‘Climate’ is an old idea, but an idea which retains tremendous power, versatility and utility in today’s world. For the Ancient Greeks, climate worked both as index and as agency , and this dual function has recurred throughout human cultural history and it works too in contemporary discourses about climate change. Climates change physically, but climates can also change ideologically. What climate means to different people in different places in different eras is not stable. If culture is concerned with how human meaning, symbolism and practice take on substantive and material forms, then studying climate through culture is likely to be a fruitful activity.
