Vulnerability to Heat Stress in Urban Areas: A Sustainability Perspective
abstract: Extreme hot-weather events have become life-threatening natural phenomena in many cities around the world, and the health impacts of excessive heat are expected to increase with climate change (Huang et al. 2011; Knowlton et al. 2007; Meehl and Tebaldi 2004; Patz 2005). Heat waves will lik...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.20929 |