Extreme Events in Mexico: Impacts on Public Health and Development

摘要: Scientific literature has established that climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme events. Extreme events, in turn, may cause disasters impacts on health. This chapter presents an overview effects is expected to have Mexico through In a nutshell, EE such as drought, forest fires, hurricanes frosts increased over recent years further intensification yet be expected. Furthermore, these events impacts, some health-wise, economic, others terms future economic performance. case Mexico, many not been systematically measured. The goal this paper therefore establish links between health other costs imposed, particularly those related loss infrastructure performance, their impact regional development.