Climate change and global public health: Impacts, research, and actions

Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 133-144

  Hanna, Elizabeth G ^c   McMichael, Anthony J ^a   Butler, Colin D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c NONE

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