Dynamic mountains – vulnerable societies
24 May
10:00 - 18:30
25 May
09:00 - 18:30
26 May
09:00 - 17:00
Booth: O6, Expo Center Foyer (1st Floor)
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- Organizer(s)
- Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Switzerland
- Contact
- Ms. Ariadna Pop
- ariadna.pop@eda.admin.ch
Participation: Public
Accessible: Yes
Accessible: Yes
Primary floor language: English
Interpretation: No
ISL Interpretation: No
Interpretation: No
ISL Interpretation: No
Live Broadcast: No
Remote Participation: No
Remote Participation: No
The Booth will illustrate how natural hazards threaten sustainable mountain development. Living with natural hazards is a constitutive fact for mountain people.
Natural hazards have continuously been forming mountain landscapes and thereby limiting the safe living space and threatening mountain people’s livelihoods.
Recent devastating events demonstrate the exposure and vulnerability of rural and urban mountain societies worldwide to natural disaster, and show that social and economic achievements, realized thanks to overall development and past efforts of the millennium development goals and currently the Agenda 2030, are at risk.