Urban vegetation for reducing heat related mortality

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 192, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-284

  Chen, Dong ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a   Thatcher, Marcus ^a   Barnett, Guy ^a   Kachenko, Anthony ^b   Prince, Robert ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Nursery and Garden Industry Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Heat waves; Mortality rate; Urban heat island; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

HEAT RELATED MORTALITY; HEAT WAVES; MELBOURNE , AUSTRALIA; MORTALITY RATE; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; URBAN CLIMATE MODELING; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN VEGETATION;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT ISLAND; MORTALITY; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BUILDING; CLIMATE; HEAT; HEAT STRESS; HEAT WAVE; MORTALITY; SIMULATION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN HEAD ISLAND; URBAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT WAVES; MORTALITY RATE; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HOUSING; MORTALITY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEASONS;

EID: 84904038687     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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