Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses  -  Roberto Bertollini, Bettina Menne

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The global climate is changing. The trend towards warmer average surface temperatures for the period since 1976 is roughly three times that of the past 100 years as a whole. In recent years warming seems to be attributable to human activities (man-made environmental changes) like land-use changes, deforestation, urbanisation and the reduction of wetlands. Global climate change is likely to be accompanied by an increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. This brings with it increased healt...
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2005 Uitgever: Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 303 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 3540244174 ISBN-13: 9783540244172