Natural Disasters in South East Asia and Bangladesh - Vulnerability Risks and Consequences (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters - International Center for Training Exchanges in the Geosciences, 1998, 83 p.): PART IV - SYNOPTIC ASSESSMENT OF NATURAL HAZARDS ON A NATIONAL SCALE: 2. Five types of territories prone to risks: 2.4. Coastal mountains

Natural Disasters in South East Asia and Bangladesh - Vulnerability Risks and Consequences (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters - International Center for Training Exchanges in the Geosciences, 1998, 83 p.)

PART IV - SYNOPTIC ASSESSMENT OF NATURAL HAZARDS ON A NATIONAL SCALE

2. Five types of territories prone to risks

		(introduction...)
		2.1. Deltas
		2.2. Inland basins
		2.3. Coastal plains
		2.4. Coastal mountains
		2.5. Inland mountains

2.4. Coastal mountains

Directly concerned by cyclones and flash floods, the coastal mountains are still associated with, and named after, the minority ethnic groups living there and who often use their knowledge of the relief to oppose the central power and illegally trade with the neighbouring countries. These minority ethnic groups frequently practice "slash and bum" agriculture. The access to these mountains remains difficult even though the proximity to the coasts has sometimes given rise to the development of commercial cultivation. This is the case in Myanmar with the small rubber plantations "on the well-irrigated sides of the Arakan relief (BRUNEAU, 1995, p. 159).