Depopulation of mountainous regions

Due to the continually increasing industrialization of lowland areas; and to the relatively harder living conditions in mountainous regions and to the relatively low birth rate there, such regions are being depopulated, despite the need for maximum use of land suited to farming and lumber.

1. Vulnerability of ecosystem niches
2. Disruptive rural to urban migration

1. Unfocused design of community space
2. Underpopulation
3. Maldistribution of population within countries
4. Deforestation of mountainous regions

1. Rugged crop terrain

1. Protecting mountain habitats
2. Increasing rural population
3. Depopulating mountainous regions

1. Underpopulation
2. Overpopulation
3. Depopulation