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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