About
What happens when power, communications, and transport are all disrupted, when shops cannot function, and when most people cannot find out what is happening? Storm Desmond in 2015 revealed how dependent on electricity modern city life has become. What lessons have been learnt?
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- Gresham College
- Speaker
- Professor Roger Kemp
- Year
- 2017
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics, Earth and environment, Society and politics
- Source
- Gresham College
- Licence
- Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
- Attribution
- Gresham College states: "We positively encourage the use of the Gresham College lecture transcripts, audio and video files for educational purposes. However, we do not allow use of Gresham College materials for commercial, personal or institutional gain."
- Who can watch
- Gresham College gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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