High mountain glaciers and climate change: challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation

dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme
dc.coverage.spatial	Global
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-11T20:02:49Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-11T20:02:49Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.isbn	978-82-7701-087-8
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/8101
dc.description	Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide. Although glacier systems show a great amount of inherent complexity and variation, there are clear overall trends indicating global glacier recession, which is likely to accelerate in coming decades. Large gaps remain in our understanding and ability to model accurately the key processes and cause-effect relationships driving glacier response to climate change. In addition, a lot of data on glacier mass changes are not available to the public due to national interests concerning water supply.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	UNEP
dc.relation	220
dc.rights	Public	en_US
dc.subject	glacier
dc.subject	climate change
dc.subject	high mountain
dc.subject	snow
dc.subject	adaptation strategy
dc.subject.classification	Climate Change
dc.title	High mountain glaciers and climate change: challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation
dc.type	Reports, Books and Booklets	en_US
wd.identifier.old-id	1128
wd.identifier.sdg	SDG 13 - Climate Action
wd.identifier.sdg	SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
wd.identifier.sdgio	http://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000047
wd.identifier.sdgio	http://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000037