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Natural Hazards

Mountain hazards

Practical Use of Natural Hazard Monitoring Systems during Escalating Risk Scenarios

Mountain hazard regimes are fundamentally shifting. There is consensus not just among concerned scientists, but practitioners of risk management, that mountain hazard regimes are affected by warmer temperatures and intensifying precipitation events. The effects of these changes are further amplified by increasing population density in known hazard zones; with more infrastructure and human settleme ...[Read More]