Climate Change, Water-Related Health Impacts, and Adaptation: Highlights from the Swedish Government’s Commission on Climate and Vulnerability

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2011, Pages 177-188

  Lindgren, Elisabet ^a   Albihn, Ann ^b   Andersson, Yvonne ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Disaster management; Epidemic outbreaks; Flooding; Floods; Food borne diseases; Government agencies; Health; Infectious diseases; Medical responses; National assessment; Vulnerability; Water runoff; Water treatment; Water borne diseases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899465585     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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