Climate change affects the fundamental bases of good human health, which are clean air, safe drinking
water, sufficient food, and secure shelter. Climate change is known to impact health through three
climate dimensions: extreme heat, natural disasters, and infections and diseases. The temporal a...
Clarke, Christine
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the health sector in the Caribbean
The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, ...
Martín, Ramón
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in the Caribbean
There are significant, fundamental changes taking place in global air and sea surface temperatures and sea levels. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that many of the warmest years on the instrumental record of global surface temperatures have occu...
Moore, Winston
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the tourism sector in the Caribbean
Flooding as an extreme event has become progressively evident in the Caribbean sub-region, as a result of an increased number of intense rainfall events, and storm surges from hurricanes. Such events in turn, have been linked to the impacts of global climate change, which has been shown to be the...
The main objective of the present study was to determine the value of impacts due to climate change on the agricultural sector in the Caribbean under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A2 and B2 scenarios. More specifically, the study aimed to eval...
Hutchinson, Sharon
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector in the Caribbean