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Research project

ESPA Grant (NERC) - Assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltas

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls

Professor in Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting in the coming century
Connect with Robert

Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean Research
Research interests
  • River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and deltas
  • Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
  • River bank erosion processes
Connect with Steve

Email: S.E.Darby@soton.ac.uk

Professor Zoe Matthews

Prof of Global Health&Social Statistics
Research interests
  • Maternal, newborn and adolescent health
  • Health workforce and health systems
  • Sustainable development goals
Connect with Zoe

Email: Zoe.Matthews@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor John Dearing

Connect with John

Email: J.Dearing@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

A sustainable future supply of sediment for the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta?
Stephen Darby, Robert Nicholls, Munsur Rahman, Sally Brown & Rezaul Karim, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_15
Type: bookChapter
Ecosystem service for well-being in deltas
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan E. Hanson, Md. Munsur Rahman & Mashfiqus Salehin, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8
Type: book
Mechanisms and drivers of soil salinity in coastal Bangladesh
2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_18
Type: bookChapter
Recent trends in ecosystem services in coastal Bangladesh
John A. Dearing & Md Sarwar Hossain Sohel, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_5
Type: bookChapter
Modelling daily soil salinity dynamics in response to agricultural and environmental changes in coastal Bangladesh
Andres Payo, Attila Lazar, Derek Clarke, Robert Nicholls, Lucy Bricheno, Salehin Mashfiqus & Anisul Haque, 2017, Earth's Future, 5(5), 495-514
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000530
Type: article