Heat- and cold-related mortality in the north-east of Poland as an example of the socio-economic effects of extreme hydrometeorological events in the POLISH LOWLAND

Geographia Polonica

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-78

  Magdalena, Kuchcik ^a   Degórski, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cold waves; Extreme hydrometeorological phenomena; Heat waves; Human mortality; Polish lowland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

POLAND;

EID: 72249105180     PISSN: 00167282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7163/gpol.2009.1.6     Document Type: Article

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