VUB professor wants to map impact of climate change throughout human life
VUB climate scientist Wim Thiery is analysing how climate change affects people throughout their lives. Due to global climate disruption, extreme events such as heat waves are expected to increase in number, intensity and duration in the coming decades. "Previous climate studies often looked at changes in risk between specific snapshots in time. Unfortunately, they usually ignored the evolution of climate disasters and individual vulnerability over a person’s lifetime," says Professor Thiery. ...
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