منابع مشابه
Climate change and extreme heat events.
The association between climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events is now well established. General circulation models of climate change predict that heatwaves will become more frequent and intense, especially in the higher latitudes, affecting large metropolitan areas that are not well adapted to them. Exposure to extreme heat is already a significant public health p...
متن کاملClimate change and occupational heat problems.
In many parts of the world ongoing climate change during the last three decades has produced higher temperatures and occupational heat stress levels in both outdoor and indoor workplaces 1, 2). Working people are particularly exposed to these heating trends in tropical and subtropical countries, where excessive workplace heat exposures linked to the outdoor ambient thermal environment are a tra...
متن کاملClimate change: heat, health, and longer horizons.
P ublic concern over climatechange impacts has mostly focused on the economic, physical, and political domains. The consequences for various industries, agriculture, livelihoods, national gross domestic product, property, infrastructure, and electoral prospects have captured most attention. In this issue of PNAS, Sherwood and Huber (1) apply a longer than usual perspective on climate change and...
متن کاملClimate change: who will take the heat
Climate change policies can regulate greenhouse gases (GHG) at a variety of points in the product cycle of fossil fuels: from fossil fuel suppliers based on the carbon content of extracted fossil resource to nal emitters at the point of energy generation. This paper develops a general equilibrium model with trade between fossil resource abundant countries and capital abundant countries to show ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0309-1333,1477-0296
DOI: 10.1177/0309133318776490