• Global health action · Dec 2012

    Climate change and natural disasters: integrating science and practice to protect health.

    • Rainer Sauerborn and Kristie Ebi.
    • Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. rainer.sauerborn@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
    • Glob Health Action. 2012 Dec 17; 5: 1-7.

    BackgroundHydro-meteorological disasters are the focus of this paper. The authors examine, to which extent climate change increases their frequency and intensity.MethodsReview of IPCC-projections of climate-change related extreme weather events and related literature on health effects.ResultsProjections show that climate change is likely to increase the frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial distribution of a range of extreme weather events over coming decades.ConclusionsThere is a need for strengthened collaboration between climate scientists, the health researchers and policy-makers as well as the disaster community to jointly develop adaptation strategies to protect human.

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