The spatial distribution of extreme climate events, another climate inequity for the world's most vulnerable people

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Green, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate impacts; climate policy; international equity; temperature extremes

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; EXTREME CLIMATES; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNATIONAL EQUITY; LOCAL POPULATIONS; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE SIGNAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXTREME EVENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VULNERABILITY;

WORLD;

EID: 84992107526     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/091002     Document Type: Review

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