Is climate change the "defining challenge of our age"?

Energy and Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-302

  Goklany, Indur M ^a  

^a Office of Policy Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COST REDUCTION; EMISSION CONTROL; HEALTH RISKS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; COASTAL FLOODING; DEVELOPING WORLD; EARLY WARNING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; FAST TRACKS; GLOBAL IMPACTS; HUMAN HEALTH; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; MITIGATION OPTIONS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAFE WATER; SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; WATER STRESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 65849265133     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/095830509788066439     Document Type: Article

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