Mass Wasting
* The United Arab emirates is classified as high risk in land slides which means that it has high rainfall patterns, terrain slope, geology, soil, land cover and potential earthquakes. * This info should make for planning decisions such as project siting, project design, and construction methods, must be taken into account for potential landslides. *Climate change is also more likely to alter slope and bedrock stability through temperature. It can also be very difficult to determine future locations and large rock avalanches because these depend on local geological conditions and other factors that don't have anything to do with climate.