Abstract
So far in just 13 years of the twenty-first century, we have seen a full range of man-made and natural disasters. Climate change [1, 2] has been implicated in the severe weather responsible for floods in England and Wales [3] and India [4] and hurricanes on the Atlantic coast of the United States [5] but still more worrying is the effect of climate change on more chronic weather patterns affecting the monsoon rainfall and rice crop in India [6] and droughts occurring across sub-Saharan Africa expanding the desert further south [7].
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Orthopedics in Disasters |
Subtitle of host publication | Orthopedic Injuries in Natural Disasters and Mass Casualty Events |
Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Pages | 7-20 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783662489505 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783662489482 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine