Heat stress causes substantial labour productivity loss in Australia

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 647-651

  Zander, Kerstin K ^a   Botzen, Wouter J W ^b   Oppermann, Elspeth ^a   Kjellstrom, Tord ^c,d   Garnett, Stephen T ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Health and Environment International Trust   (New Zealand)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH RISK; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WORKPLACE;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84932132715     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2623     Document Type: Article

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