Cold- and heat-related mortality: A cautionary note on current damage functions with net benefits from climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 407-418

  Huber, Veronika ^a   Ibarreta, Dolores ^b   Frieler, Katja ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; PITTING;

CALIBRATION SCHEMES; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; ECONOMIC ASSESSMENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; HEAT RELATED MORTALITY; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; URBAN POPULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 85016927497     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-1956-6     Document Type: Article

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