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Global climate change is expected to affect waterborne enteric diseases, yet to date there
has been no comprehensive, systematic review of the epidemiological literature examining …

Global warming is expected to change the regime of extreme precipitation. Physical laws
translate increasing atmospheric heat into increasing atmospheric water content that drives …

Extreme precipitation events can pose great risks to natural ecosystems and human society.
Investigating past changes in the frequency, intensity, and duration of such events and …

A holistic perspective on changing rainfall-driven flood risk is provided for the late 20th and
early 21st centuries. Economic losses from floods have greatly increased, principally driven …

The increase in dynamic interactions between climate and human activities threatens water
security in terms of water quantity and quality. Most water security studies have focused on …

Human activity is rapidly transforming most of Earth's natural systems. How this
transformation is impacting human health, whose health is at greatest risk, and the …

Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the
developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which …

Background Assessing research activity is important for planning future protective and
adaptive policies. The objective of the current study was to assess research activity on …

Significant volumes of research over the past four decades has sought to elucidate the
social, infrastructural, economic, and human health effects of climate change induced …