Given current reported and projected trends in global environmental change, exposure to risk and vulnerability in mountain comunities could increase in coming decades. Mountain communities can be exposed to various hazards simultaneously, including rapid-onset hazards such as earthquakes, landslides and volcanic eruptions, as well as creeping processes such as soil degradation, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and drought. It is thus urgent to increase current efforts to assess vulnerability and risk and particularly to consider the aggregated stress of multiple hazards.
