Mountains and
Climate Change
From Understanding to Action
© 2012
3rd edition
First edition 2009
Second edition 2010
Published by the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Institute of Geography,
University of Bern, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Copyright: Geographica Bernensia and SDC 2010
Editors: Thomas Kohler (CDE), Daniel Maselli (SDC)
Concept: Daniel Maselli (SDC), Thomas Kohler (CDE)
Design and Layout: Simone Kummer (CDE)
Proofreading: Theodore Wachs (CDE)
Cartography / Statistics: Ursula Gaemperli Krauer, Jürg Krauer, Sylvia Loercher (CDE)
Alex Hermann (Institute of Geography, University of Bern)
Citation:
Kohler T. and Maselli D. (eds) 2009. Mountains and Climate Change - From Understanding to Action.
Published by Geographica Bernensia with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation (SDC), and an international team of contributors. Bern.
This publication is available from:
Mountain Partnership Secretariat – FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome - Italy
www.mountainpartnership.org
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
CH-3003 Bern, Switzerland
www.deza.admin.ch
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
University of Bern
CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
www.cde.unibe.ch
Cover photo: Daniel Maselli
ISBN: 978-3-905835-16-8
Contents
Foreword 3
1 Climate Change in Mountains 5
2 Mountain Waters 11
Key Issues, and Case Studies from the European Alps,
Andes, and Rocky Mountains
3 Mountain Glaciers 21
Key Issues, and Case Studies from Peru, New Zealand,
the European Alps, and the Hindu Kush-Himalaya
4 Mountain Hazards 31
Key Issues, and Case Studies from Kyrgyzstan, Iceland,
Switzerland, and Peru
5 Mountain Biodiversity 41
Key Issues, and Case Studies from
the Hindu Kush-Himalaya, and Mount Kilimanjaro
6 Food Security in Mountains 49
Key Issues, and Case Studies from Peru, Nepal,
India and Morocco
7 Migration and Mountains 59
Key Issues, and Case Study from Central Asia
Mountains and Climate Change: 67
A Global Concern
References 72
Authors and Reviewers Inside Back Cover
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