Climate change and temperature rise in the Greater Beirut Area: Implications on heat-related premature mortality

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1059-1067

  El Fadel, Mutasem ^a   Ghanimeh, Sophia ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Premature mortality; Public health; Temperature rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884701725     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0415-9     Document Type: Article

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