Abstract: With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work - and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike. Contents Dramatic deserts Spreading deserts: past and future What drives deserts? Desert survivors Living off a lean landscape Dry but smart: tomorrow's desert business Surprising settlements Tantalising technologies Desert democrats Deserts and our future.