Erratum: Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: a matter of survival (The Lancet (2014) 383(9915) (458–476) (S0140673613623387) (10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62338-7));Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: A matter of survival

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9915, 2014, Pages 458-476

  El Zein, Abbas ^a   Jabbour, Samer ^b   Tekce, Belgin ^c   Zurayk, Huda ^b   Nuwayhid, Iman ^b   Khawaja, Marwan ^d   Tell, Tariq ^b   Al Mooji, Yusuf ^d   De Jong, Jocelyn ^a   Yassin, Nasser ^b   Hogan, Dennis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA)   (Lebanon)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOOD; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYDROPOWER; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABOR; POPULATION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION; WAR;

EID: 84895072470     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60152-5     Document Type: Erratum

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