National and global monitoring and surveillance systems for the health risks of global change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 649-655

  Ebi, Kristie ^a  

^a ClimAdapt   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Global change; Monitoring; Public health prevention; Surveillance; Weather and climate extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994266419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_105     Document Type: Chapter

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