Great British Weather Disasters

Philip Eden

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Continuum Publishing Corporation
20 November 2009

British & Irish history; Social impact of disasters; Weather

Disaster books traditionally feed on hype, sensationalism and bad science. Eden manages to redress the balance.

What then is the place of weather disasters in our climate? Are they freaks or a necessary part of the whole? How rare are meteorological event does it take to cause chaos in our day-to-day lives? Are we becoming more at risk and less capable of dealing with them? Or do we just complain more? These days we try and mitigate the effects of different hazards, by acquiring personal and property protection - individually, personally and politically. So what is the role of local and central government, the insurance industry, the media and the public? And how do we actually measure disaster? By rarity, insurance cost, death toll, recovery times etc? Can we merge all these so we can compare -say- the 1976 drought with the 1891 blizzard? Can we rank disasters? 15,000 died in the European heatwave of August 2003. Is this the shape of things to come? What will happen if the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift stops flowing? Here are just a few of Philip Eden's topics in a book which will be riveting to readers.

By: Philip Eden
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781441145918
ISBN 10: 1441145915
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 20 November 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword PART 1 1. Setting the scene 2. Coping with the hazard 3. The nature of the hazard 4. Snowstorms - two case studies 5. Fog and smog - two case studies 6. Summer floods - two case studies 7. Destructive gales - two case studies 8. Droughts - two case studies 9. Compare and Contrast 10. ...and the next disaster please PART 2 A chronology of disaster: severe weather events in the UK from 1901 to 2008 Index

Philip Eden is the weather correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and appears regularly on radio and television. He is also Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society and Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust.