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In recent years, natural hazards have caused increasingly damages to infrastructure and human beings in the alpine regions. At the same time, the global mean temperature is rising but in case of mass movement processes, there exists no direct connection between these two facts. It is not evident, that global rising temperatures will intensify the triggering effect of extreme precipitation everywhere. This will probably vary spatially. Adverse socioeconomic development has brought about the increase of real values. The impact of unsustainable land use has often caused higher susceptibilities. Even without adverse “Climate Change Effects”, the risks due to natural hazards will increase in the future as a consequence of socioeconomic development. Hence, databases and methods of hazard and risk assessment have to be updated and improved.
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Hagen, K., Andrecs, P. (2011). Mass Movement Processes Under Changing Climatic and Socioeconomic Conditions. In: Zhelezov, G. (eds) Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0131-1_3
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