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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229929
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
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Climate change, cold waves, heat waves, and mortality : evidence from a lower middle-income country
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Nguyen, Manh-Hung; Toan Truong Nguyen - 2022
We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly … data on mortality during the 2000-2018 period. We find that both cold and heat waves cause higher mortality, particularly … among older people. This effect on mortality tends to be smaller in provinces with higher rates of air-conditioning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806269
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Deadly variation : the effect of temperature variability on mortality
Hovdahl, Isabel - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175979
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Losses of Russian regions from mortality due to sharp climate fluctuation
Fokeev, Maxim; Ruzhanskaya, Liudmila; Kisljak, Nadežda - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 16 (2022) 2/3/4, pp. 236-256
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308134
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Human Development Report 2007/8. Fighting Climate Change : Human Solidarity in a Divided World
Watkins, Kevin - 2013
world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business … impacts, but that window is closing: the world has less than a decade to change course. Actions taken — or not taken — in the … years ahead will have a profound bearing on the future course of human development. The world lacks neither the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078989
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Improving living standards within stringent carbon budgets : the critical importance of climate equity
Diwakar, Vidya; Davis, Marion; Colenbrander, Sarah; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496431
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Human development report 2007/2008 : fighting climate change ; human solidarity in a divided world
2007
This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484759
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The income-temperature relationship in a cross-section of countries and its implications for predicting the effects of global warming
Horowitz, John Keith - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 44 (2009) 4, pp. 475-493
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939005
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Temperature, human health, and adaptation : a review of the empirical literature
Deschênes, Olivier - In: Energy economics 46 (2014), pp. 606-619
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298942