Great British Weather Disasters

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8264-7621-0
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

At last a sequel to Philip Eden's best selling book The Telegraph Guide to the Weather.
This book will be illustrated and has a much larger potential sale

- Week after week Philip Eden writes his column on the weather in The Daily Telegraph. His following is massive.
- The Daily Telegraph Guide to the Weather is and remains one of Continuum's outstanding sellers.
- We are all obsessed with the weather and we love reading about disasters.
- Eden also has a regular slot on Radio Five Live.
- The Telegraph will promote this book vigorously through its pages.

Here is a popular book with big set-piece descriptions accompanied by illustrations at its core, but with enough science to attract both the specialist reader and to educate the lay reader without scaring them off. Disaster books tradtionally feed on hype, sensationalism and bad science. Eden redresses 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 a 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 or what? 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 last year's European heatwave. Is this the shape of things to come?
What will happpen when the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift stops flowing?

These are just a few of Philip Eden's topics in a book which will be riveting to readers.

Zielgruppe

General Interest, Meteorologists, People who like discussing and moaning about the weather (most of the population)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eden, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Setting the Scene
Coping with Hazard.
The Big Ones (the Great Storm of 1703 onwards)
The Not-So Big Ones
Measuring Disaster
The Future

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Eden is weather correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. Author of a number of books (including one for Continuum) he broadcasts regularly, gets called as an expert on radio and television and in courts of law. He lives in Essex