Mountains and Climate Change

From Understanding to Action

Publisher(s): Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) Institute of Geography Website  http://www.cde.unibe.ch Place of publication: Bern ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-905835-16-8 Language: en Purchase: http://www.cde.unibe.ch/ Page(s): 80 Publication type: Other

Mountains are among the regions most affected by climate change. The implications of climate change will reach far beyond mountain areas, as the contributions in the present publication prepared for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 show. Themes discussed are water, glaciers and permafrost, hazards, biodiversity, food security, and migration. The case studies included show that concrete adaptive action has been taken in many mountain areas of the world. The publication concludes with a series of recommendations for sustainable mountain development in the face of climate change.
* Chapter 1: Climate Change in Mountains
* Chapter 2: Mountain Waters
* Chapter 3: Mountain Glaciers
* Chapter 4: Mountain Hazards
* Chapter 5: Mountain Biodiversity
* Chapter 6: Food Security in Mountains
* Chapter 7: Migration and Mountains
* Mountains and Climate Change: A Global Concern