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Ms. Jess Delves
Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS)

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Journal article
Published: 30 July 2021 in Sustainability
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The Maloti-Drakensberg (MD) is the largest and highest-elevation mountain system in southern Africa. Covering 40,000 km2 and reaching 3500 m, the MD provides a range of ecosystem services (ES) to the entire southern African region—benefitting diverse users and extending well beyond the mountains. Rapid socioecological change threatens the provision of ES and presents multidimensional challenges to sustainable development. However, the continued land degradation and persisting socioeconomic problems indicate that development policy has not been effective in tackling these issues. In this paper, a multidisciplinary literature review forms the basis of a discussion which takes an ES framing to scrutinise the multidimensional social, political, economic and cultural issues in the study area. Three critical management systems are presented, and their associated ES are discussed, namely, water transfer, rangelands and conservation and tourism. In particular, the diversity of ES uses and values in the MD is considered. The results reveal the main drivers of continued unsustainable development and highlight important information gaps.

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Jess Delves; V. Clark; Stefan Schneiderbauer; Nigel Barker; Jörg Szarzynski; Stefano Tondini; João Vidal; Andrea Membretti. Scrutinising Multidimensional Challenges in the Maloti-Drakensberg (Lesotho/South Africa). Sustainability 2021, 13, 8511 .

AMA Style

Jess Delves, V. Clark, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Nigel Barker, Jörg Szarzynski, Stefano Tondini, João Vidal, Andrea Membretti. Scrutinising Multidimensional Challenges in the Maloti-Drakensberg (Lesotho/South Africa). Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8511.

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Jess Delves; V. Clark; Stefan Schneiderbauer; Nigel Barker; Jörg Szarzynski; Stefano Tondini; João Vidal; Andrea Membretti. 2021. "Scrutinising Multidimensional Challenges in the Maloti-Drakensberg (Lesotho/South Africa)." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8511.

Review article
Published: 07 April 2021 in Science of The Total Environment
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Mountains are highly sensitive to climate change. Their elevated areas provide essential ecosystem services both for the surrounding mountainous regions and particularly for adjacent lowlands. Impacts of a warmer climate affect these services and have negative consequences on the supply of water, on biodiversity and on protection from natural hazards. Mountain social-ecological systems are affected by these changes, which also influence communities' risk perception and responses to changing climate conditions. Therefore, to understand individual and societal responses to climate change in mountain areas, aspects and drivers of risk perception need to be scrutinised. This article presents the findings of a literature review of recent English language publications on risk perception in connection to climate change and related natural hazards in mountain regions worldwide. Studies were selected from recorded entries in JSTOR, Science Direct, Scopus and Web of Science covering the period 2000–2019 and analysed in two steps (structured exploratory analysis, n = 249 and in-depth analysis, n = 72) with respect to the studies' research question, methodology, geographical scope and risk perception drivers. The review reveals that socio-demographic factors, like gender, age and personal experiences, have a crucial impact on individual risk perception. Some of the less tangible but nevertheless decisive factors are important in mountain regions such as place attachment and socio-cultural practices. In conclusion, there is however little information in the literature which addresses the specific situation of risk perception in mountain areas and its influence on communities' responses to environmental changes. Further, we observed a strong gap concerning the integration of indigenous knowledge in risk perception research. Many studies overlook or oversimplify local knowledge and the cultural dimensions of risk perception. Based on these results, the paper identifies several gaps in research and knowledge which may influence the design of climate risk management strategies as well as on their successful implementation.

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Stefan Schneiderbauer; Paola Fontanella Pisa; Jess L. Delves; Lydia Pedoth; Samuel Rufat; Marlene Erschbamer; Thomas Thaler; Fabio Carnelli; Sergio Granados-Chahin. Risk perception of climate change and natural hazards in global mountain regions: A critical review. Science of The Total Environment 2021, 784, 146957 .

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Stefan Schneiderbauer, Paola Fontanella Pisa, Jess L. Delves, Lydia Pedoth, Samuel Rufat, Marlene Erschbamer, Thomas Thaler, Fabio Carnelli, Sergio Granados-Chahin. Risk perception of climate change and natural hazards in global mountain regions: A critical review. Science of The Total Environment. 2021; 784 ():146957.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Stefan Schneiderbauer; Paola Fontanella Pisa; Jess L. Delves; Lydia Pedoth; Samuel Rufat; Marlene Erschbamer; Thomas Thaler; Fabio Carnelli; Sergio Granados-Chahin. 2021. "Risk perception of climate change and natural hazards in global mountain regions: A critical review." Science of The Total Environment 784, no. : 146957.