Towards sectoral and standardised vulnerability assessments: The example of heatwave impacts on human health

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 687-708

  Lissner, Tabea K ^a   Holsten, Anne ^a   Walther, Carsten ^a   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMPLEX FIELDS; COMPLEX MECHANISMS; DECISION MAKERS; DIRECT IMPACT; FUZZY LOGIC ALGORITHMS; GERMANY; HEATWAVES; HOT SPOT; HUMAN HEALTH; IMPACT INTENSITY; SMALL SCALE; SOCIETAL FACTORS; SOCIETAL SYSTEMS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS; STRUCTURED APPROACH; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; ELDERLY POPULATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEALTH RISK; HEAT ISLAND; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; VULNERABILITY;

GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 84860916632     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0231-5     Document Type: Article

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