Weather variability in urban Philippines: a gender analysis of household impacts

Climatic Change

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 589-599

  Mason, Lisa Reyes ^a   Agan, T Celeste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT;

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; GROWING BODIES; HUMAN HEALTH; INTERANNUAL; PHILIPPINES; RAINY SEASONS; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WEATHER VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXTREME EVENT; GENDER ROLE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INNOVATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TYPHOON; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84942506002     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1437-8     Document Type: Article

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