Outlook on climate change adaptation

Summary of key hazards, vulnerabilities and risks (continued)

Vulnerable sectors

Key risks

Hazard

Agriculture Forestry

• Damage to buildings, roads and infrastructure • Threat to human health and lives • Loss of agricultural and forest production • Increase of flood events • Erosion of fertile soils • Loss of agricultural production • Damage to buildings, roads and infrastructure

Landslides

Water Agriculture Tourism

Soil erosion

Forestry

• Higher vulnerability of the forest for insect attacks and pathogens • Changing seasonality • Species are forced to migrate to higher altitudes and change of species composition within ecosystems • Invasion of alien species • Outbreak of pests • Pressure on snow dependent species

Rising temperature

Biodiversity

Agriculture

• Less water availability in spring / growing season

Tourism

• Less snow for winter tourism and loss of income in remote mountain communities

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