The mountains of Central Asia support many environmental functions and ecosystem services. The mountain environments and their services are affected by climate change and climate change adaptation (CCA) actions are required to increase resilience of regional communities. This paper is a systematic review of the English and Russian‐language literature published between 2013 (IPCC AR5) and May 2021 (IPCC AR6) focusing on CCA in the Central Asian mountains. In all, 52 publications have been reviewed. Criteria defining incremental and transformative adaptation were established and the reviewed studies were assigned to one of these approaches. The relatively low number of publications shows that the extent of CCA knowledge represented in academic literature is limited in comparison to other mountainous regions. There is a disparity between the growing body of publications addressing climate change and limited and decreasing number of academic publications focusing on adaptation in the region. Only 11 publications reported transformative adaptation actions. Most of the reviewed papers (55%) focus on water resources and future water availability; 15% focus on land degradation, 10% on changes in vertical zonation of plant species, 7% on loss of plant species, 3% on impacts of hazardous events, and 10% on multiple impacts of climate change. The awareness of the importance of CCA among the regional actors should be improved through closer collaboration between researchers, international organizations focusing on sustainable development and adaptation which have recently become more active in the region, practitioners, and local communities and co‐production of knowledge on the development and implementation of CCA.This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation Assessing Impacts of Climate Change > Observed Impacts of Climate Change

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中亚山区适应气候变化：系统文献综述


中亚山区支持许多环境功能和生态系统服务。山区环境及其服务受到气候变化的影响，需要采取气候变化适应（CCA）行动来增强区域社区的抵御能力。本文系统回顾了 2013 年 (IPCC AR5) 至 2021 年 5 月 (IPCC AR6) 发表的英文和俄文文献，重点关注中亚山区的 CCA。总共审查了 52 份出版物。建立了定义增量和变革性适应的标准，并将审查的研究分配给其中一种方法。出版物数量相对较少表明，与其他山区相比，学术文献中所体现的 CCA 知识范围有限。涉及气候变化的出版物数量不断增加，而关注该地区适应问题的学术出版物数量有限且不断减少，两者之间存在着差距。只有 11 份出版物报告了变革性适应行动。大多数审阅论文（55%）关注水资源和未来可用水量； 15% 关注土地退化，10% 关注植物物种垂直分区变化，7% 关注植物物种丧失，3% 关注危险事件的影响，10% 关注气候变化的多重影响。应通过研究人员、最近在该地区变得更加活跃的关注可持续发展和适应的国际组织、从业者和当地社区之间更密切的合作以及共同生产关于可持续发展和适应的知识，提高区域行为者对 CCA 重要性的认识。 CCA 的开发和实施。本文分类为：跨学科视角 > 人文与创意艺术 跨学科视角 > 人文与创意艺术对气候变化的脆弱性和适应 > 评估气候变化影响的适应机构 > 观察到的气候变化影响