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Displaying 8 of about 8 results… economic contribution. Climate change impacts — including heat stress, downpours, floods, and clean water scarcity — … economic contribution. Climate change impacts — including heat stress, downpours, floods, and clean water scarcity — … address them (Box 1). Problems worsen with climate change Heat stress Many informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe …
This paper investigates the association between exposure to cumulative disaster and the first onset of depression in a nationally representative survey in South Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented disasters, with climate change expected to exacerbate the frequency and severity of unpredictable and stressful catastrophic events. Unlike develop…
… diverse risks to human lives including but not limited to heat exposure and heat stress; water scarcity, flooding and droughts; changing … increasing health problem for Egypt. During a severe heat wave that occurred in 2015, more than 500 were admitted to …
… choices. This region is already water stressed, and heat stress limits daily life for much of the year. Not only … the stresses of human impacts. At the same time, heat stress from rising temperatures will considerably … could increase the intensity and frequency of extreme wave events, further exacerbating coastal erosion and …
… health of Sao Tome and Principe’s population, including heat stress, food and water insecurity, spread of water- and … Direct effects Health impacts of extreme weather events Heat-related illness Indirect effects Water security and … risk’), 1900–2100 FIGURE 3: Percentage of hot days (‘heat stress’), 1900–2100 The percentage of hot daysd is …
… Change Country Profile4 FIGURE 3: Percentage of hot days (‘heat stress’), 1900–2100 The percentage of hot daysd is … well as the transmission of vector-borne diseases (25–28). Heat stress Climate change is expected to increase the mean annual temperature and the intensity and frequency of heat waves, resulting in a greater number of people at risk …
… risk’), 1900–2100 FIGURE 3: Percentage of hot days (‘heat stress’), 1900–2100 The percentage of hot daysd is … well as the transmission of vector-borne diseases (23–26). Heat stress Climate change is expected to increase the mean annual temperature and the intensity and frequency of heat waves, resulting in a greater number of people at risk …
… energy and momentum. Residents reported a large ‘tidal wave’ of material advancing down the river channel … 7). kamayama/Malama residents report a large ‘tidal wave’ of material advancing down the river channel … flow pushed the floodwater and residents reported a ‘tidal wave’ or ‘wall’ of material including mud, boulders and tree …