Estimating the Health‐Related Costs of 10 Climate‐Sensitive U.S. Events During 2012
Abstract Climate change threatens human health, but there remains a lack of evidence on the economic toll of climate‐sensitive public health impacts. We characterize human mortality and morbidity costs associated with 10 climate‐sensitive case study events spanning 11 US states in 2012: wildfires in...
Main Authors: | Vijay S. Limaye, Wendy Max, Juanita Constible, Kim Knowlton |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2019-09-01
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Series: | GeoHealth |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GH000202 |
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