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SUBMITTER: Wenz L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4928955 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wenz Leonie L Levermann Anders A
Science advances 20160610 6
Assessing global impacts of unexpected meteorological events in an increasingly connected world economy is important for estimating the costs of climate change. We show that since the beginning of the 21st century, the structural evolution of the global supply network has been such as to foster an increase of climate-related production losses. We compute first- and higher-order losses from heat stress-induced reductions in productivity under changing economic and climatic conditions between 1991 ...[more]