Health impacts of heat: Present realities and potential impacts of aclimate change

Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 68-81

  Kalkstein, Laurence ^a   Koppe, Christina ^b   Orlandini, Simone ^c   Sheridan, Scott ^d   Smoyer Tomic, Karen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d Kent State ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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