Mountain Adaptation Outlook Series - Synthesis Report

DU KUSH HIMALAYA 43 474 2009-2017

ROPICAL ANDES 4692

EAST AFRICA 6 156

& RELATED DEATHS

13 SOUTH CAUCASUS 60

2000-2008

281 CENTRAL ASIA 258

907 WESTERN BALKANS 190

3313 CARPATHIANS 1854

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NUMBER OF DEATHS

2865 TROPICAL ANDES 4692

Data

11 419 EAST AFRICA 6 156

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NUMBER OF DEATHS

Data covers the entire country including non-mountain areas. Source: The Emergency Events Database, https://www.emdat.be/

Data covers the entire country including no Source: The Emergency Events Database, https

are challenged by similar socio-economic factors which contribute to vulnerability and exposure: isolated populations; poor and costly access to markets; poor infrastructure; more widespread poverty and food insecurity; lower education levels; a lack of diversification of livelihoods, including a high dependence on agriculture as the main or only source of livelihood; and marginalization in decision-

making. This is not to say that mountain societies do not have adaptive capacities. They have, after all, adapted to an already harsh – and changing - climate over hundreds if not thousands of years. However, the rapid and unprecedented rate of climate change now is challenging this adaptive capacity, as is evident through the already widespread impacts being felt across mountain regions.

20 000

Disasters trends over two time periods (2000- 2008; 2009-2017) according to the International Disasters Database (EM-DAT). The analysis uses statistics at the national level. The absence of a region by disaster category indicates no events were recorded in the database for the countries of that region, for the time period in question.

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