Social, environmental and health vulnerability to climate change in the Brazilian Northeastern Region

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-137

  Confalonieri, Ulisses E C ^a   Lima, Anna Carolina L ^a   Brito, Isabela ^a   Quintão, Ana Flávia ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b ESP MG   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE PATTERNS; CLIMATE-INDUCED MIGRATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMAN POPULATION; PROJECTED PATTERNS; VULNERABILITY INDEX;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SOCIAL POLICY; VULNERABILITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84912050036     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0811-7     Document Type: Article

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