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• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.642.4505; http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-8-31.pdf

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articlea matter of scientific speculation but is fast becoming a reality. The increase in Earth’s surface temperature is taking place much more rapidly today than earlier in time period. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that the average surface According to the IPCC, 11 of the last twelve years be-tween 1995 and 2006 have been the warmest years in the instrumental record of the Earth’s surface temperature with heat waves becoming much more fre-quent. Greenland, West Antarctic and Himalayan gla-ciers are receding fast, disrupting the supply of water, whereas the incidence of extreme weather events is be- * Correspondence: [e-mail]1Department of Economics, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,The phenomenon of climate change – a direct conse-Background: Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its geographic location, high dependence on agriculture and water resources, low adaptive capacity of its people, and weak system of emergency preparedness. This paper is the first ever attempt to rank the agro-ecological zones in Pakistan according to their vulnerability to climate change and to identify the potential health repercussions of each manifestation of climate change in the