Georgina H. Endfield (University of Liverpool, UK), Lucy Veale (The University of Nottingham, UK)
There is growing concern over the impacts of climate variability and anomalous and unusual weather. While social and economic systems have generally evolved to accommodate some deviations from 'normal' weather conditions, this is rarely true of extremes. For this reason such events can have the greatest and most immediate social and economic impact of all climate changes.
This book is the first to explore the cultural contingency of such weather events, and the ways in which they are recalled, recorded or forgotten. It illustrates how geographical context, particular physical...
There is growing concern over the impacts of climate variability and anomalous and unusual weather. While social and economic systems have generall...