Collective violence caused by climate change and how it threatens health and human rights

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-40

  Levy, Barry S ^a   Sidel, Victor W ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIOLENCE;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); VIOLENCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; GLOBAL HEALTH; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RAIN; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84908137602     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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