Assessing climate change and heat stress responses in the Tarai region of Nepal

Industrial Health

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-112

  Pradhan, Bandana ^a   Shrestha, Shailendra ^b   Shrestha, Ranjana ^a   Pradhanang, Sadhana ^a   Kayastha, Birendra ^c   Pradhan, Pushkar ^a  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b Tribhuvan University ^*

^c Central Bureau of Statistics   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Adaptive strategies; Heat stress; HOTHAPS; Rising temperature; Working environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874046032     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.2012-0166     Document Type: Article

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