Climate change, extreme weather and climate events, and health impacts

Global Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 605-613

  Sena, Aderita ^a   Corvalan, Carlos ^b   Ebi, Kristie ^c  

^a MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^b PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Brazil)

^c ClimAdapt   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Droughts; Floods; Heat waves; Hurricanes; Weather and climate extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928389236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_101     Document Type: Chapter

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