The impacts of climate change are exacerbated in steep, icy, and geologically active mountain environments. Related hazards and risk are a threat to sustainable development both within vulnerable mountain communities, and in downstream areas. In Session 4, observed and projected changes in climate across the mountainous areas of the South Caucasus are considered, and what they mean for hazard and risk.
- Definition of sustainable mountain development
- Climate change in mountain areas
- Temperature and precipitation
- Glaciers
- Snow
- Permafrost
- Runoff
- Glacial related hazards
- Slope failures
- Debris flows
- Ice avalanches
- Glacial lake outburst floods
- Assessing glacier hazards and risk
- Adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures
