Home > Projects and Programmes / Document Record 
Search Research Database
Document Record
Weather and Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications for Climate Change
Document Type: PowerPoint Presentation
Citation: Presentation at NYU, May 5th 2009. 83 pp.
Production Year: 2009
Creator: R. Burgess, O. Deschenes, D. Donaldson and M. Greenstone
Countries: India
Regions: Southern Asia
Summary:
This presentation asks the questions: What is the impact of inter-annual variation in weather on health in India with district-level data from 1957-2000?; What are the mechanisms through which exposure to extreme temperatures impact human health in developing countries?; Are there interventions/infrastructure/policies that help mitigate the impact of extreme temperatures?; and What are the implications of all this for the health costs of climate change in developing countries?