The human health co-benefits of air quality improvements associated with climate change mitigation

Global Climate Change and Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 137-154

  Thurston, George D ^a   Bell, Michelle L ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution and health; Air quality and climate change; Climate change and air quality; Greenhouse gases and human health; Ozone exposures; Particulate matter time series studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028846047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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