Inter-linkage of mountain specificities

Another feature of mountain specificities is that most of them are interlinked in two ways.

1) Commonality of causative factors:

• The degree of diversity, fragility marginality human adaptation mechanism, and inaccessibility are in different measures directly linked to factors such as elevation slope angle and slope exposure and adaptation.
• Similarly, climatic factors such as precipitation and microclimates also contribute to the degree of diversity, fragility, marginality, and human adaptation.
• Socio-economic factors such as ethnicity, types of economic activities,s and NRM patterns play a major role in determining the degree of diversity, marginality, etc. of the mountain communities.
• Owing to the above relationship any intervention disturbing the underlying common factors will affect other related specificities.

2) Shared consequence of externalities:

• Several mountain characteristics are invariably influenced by any disturbance or treatment when an inaccessibility is handled by the construction of a road in mountain terrain the fragility, due to steep slopes and associated vegetation negatively affected.
• However, improved inaccessibility could also integrate the remote marginal areas within mainstreamsituationsn and reduce marginality.
• Such negative and positive impacts going beyond the intended purpose are termes negative or positive externalities.