Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 33, 2017, Pages 8746-8751

  Carleton, Tamma A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate; India; Suicide; Weather impacts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CROP; GROWING SEASON; HARVEST; HUMAN; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE; ACCLIMATIZATION; AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEAT; INCOME; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; SEASONS; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85027406567     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701354114     Document Type: Article

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