Climate change through a poverty lens

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 250-256

  Hallegatte, Stephane ^a   Rozenberg, Julie ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MACROECONOMICS; NATIONAL ECONOMY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POVERTY;

EID: 85017151899     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3253     Document Type: Review

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