Towards more comprehensive projections of urban heat-related mortality: Estimates for New York city under multiple population, adaptation, and climate scenarios
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22/06/2016
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Environmental Health Perspectives
High temperatures have substantial impacts on mortality and, with growing concerns about climate change, numerous studies have developed projections of future heat-related deaths around the world. Projections of temperature-related mortality are often limited by insufficient information necessary to formulate hypotheses about population sensitivity to high temperatures and future demographics.