Outlook on climate change adaptation in the Tropical Andes mountains

is as exclusion, whereby mountains are not recognized as a unique territory. The second is as an opportunity for redefining and redirecting unspecific policies from multiple sectors towards the adaptation of vulnerable mountain ecosystems. Mountains are important for public issues that belong to many sectors; therefore, mountains do not fall within any single sector, nor are they exclusively addressed by any single policy analysed. The figure shows how national climate change strategies fall under (and have to be consistent with) national development plans, and are above the subnational development plans. Each of these instruments generates policies that interact with each other (e.g. adaptation policies influence sector policies) and apply in the mountains.

Man harvesting potatoes, Bolivia

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