Located in Southeast Asia, the Philippines is ranked third worldwide in terms of disaster risk in the World Risk Index 2018, a composite index that also includes risks from climate-related hazards (www.WorldRiskReport.org). As of 2015, as many as 40.5% of the country’s total population (...
i.e., the agent would be willing to bear a higher average intensity if she knew that she were guaranteed not to randomly draw a value higher than the mean89. The gap between the EDE and the mean is an index of inequality within a given group, indicating the maximum additional SUHI inte...
Overall, more human-induced warming as well as consequent heat-related mortality are currently observed at high latitudes and high altitudes than in other subregions of China. For China and its subregion, natural climate change remains the primary cause of most heat-related deaths today, with anth...