Population ageing determines changes in heat vulnerability to future warming

Population ageing, an increase in the older age group's portion of the total population, worsens the heat tolerance of a society. However, impacts of ageing on the social exposure to projected unprecedented hot summers (UHSs) are uncertain. We show that a shifting of the population distribution...

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Hauptverfasser: Park, C-E, Jeong, S, Harrington, LJ, Lee, M-I, Zheng, C
Format: Journal article
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: IOP Publishing 2020