Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
5
Adaptation to Climate Change
in Mountain Regions: Global
Matthias Monreal
1,
*
and
Johann Stötter
2
INTRODUCTION
This chapter takes a discursive approach to explore the importance of
adaptation to global climate change as a viable strategy in mountain
regions. It sets out by trying to understand global change as a process
that unfolds between interacting pairs of opposing forces/actors/trends,
the reconciliation of which is the aim of recent thought in the study of
social ecological systems. It is argued that mitigation and adaptation
can be understood as part of this dialectic process. After presenting the
particular environmental and societal circumstances in mountain regions,
their vulnerability and their importance for lowlands the case is made for
a concerted effort on the part of lowland societies to support adaptation in
mountain regions if for nothing else but their own self-interest.
Search WWH ::
Custom Search