Urban vegetation and heat-related mortality in Seoul, Korea

Environmental Research

Volumn 151, Issue , 2016, Pages 728-733

  Son, Ji Young ^a   Lane, Kevin J ^a   Lee, Jong Tae ^b   Bell, Michelle L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Heat island; Mortality; Temperature; Urban; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; HEAT ISLAND; MORTALITY RISK; NDVI; POISSON RATIO; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAT INJURY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CITY PLANNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFRARED RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEOUL; URBAN RENEWAL; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84987925177     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.09.001     Document Type: Article

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