The papers in this series can be quoted with due acknowledgments.
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The paper points out that the HKH is inherently vulnerable to environmental hazards that often lead to disastrous consequences. Despite the fact that climate and hydrology are the principal causes of, as well as contributing factors to, natural hazards, research and data sharing in these fields have been limited. The paper concludes that management of environmental hazards essentially depends on management of water and calls for regional cooperation towards this end. The combination of inherently weak geology and intense precipitation that characterise these mountains make them extremely vulnerable to hazards even in normal climatic conditions. The HKH, as the youngest mountains on earth, are also tectonically very active and hence inherently vulnerable to hazards.