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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

Population dynamics, delta vulnerability and environmental change: comparison of the Mekong, Ganges–Brahmaputra and Amazon delta regions
S. Szabo, E. Brondizio, F.G. Renaud, S. Hetrick, R. Nicholls, Z. Matthews, Z Tessler, A Tejedor, Z Sebesvari, E Foufoula-Georgiou, S da Costa & J.A. Dearing, 2016, Sustainability Science, 11(4), 539-554
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0372-6
Type: article
Unravelling the interrelationships between ecosystem services and human wellbeing in the Bangladesh delta
Md. Sarwar Hossain, Felix Eigenbrod, Fiifi Amoako Johnson & John A. Dearing, 2016, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 1-15
DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2016.1182087
Type: article
Projecting marine fish production and catch potential in Bangladesh in the 21st century under long-term environmental change and management scenarios
Jose A. Fernandes, Susan Kay, Mostafa A.R. Hossain, Munir Ahmed, William W.L. Cheung, Attila Lazar & Manuel Barange, 2016, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(5), 1357-1369
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsv217
Type: article
Soil salinity, household wealth and food insecurity in tropical deltas: evidence from south-west coast of Bangladesh
Sylvia Szabo, Sarwar Sohel, Neil Adger, Zoe Matthews, Sayem Ahmed, Attila Lazar & Sate Ahmad, 2016, Sustainability Science, 11(3), 411-421
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-015-0337-1
Type: article
Is shrimp farming a successful adaptation to salinity intrusion? A geospatial associative analysis of poverty in the populous Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of Bangladesh
F. Amoako Johnson, C. Hutton, D. Hornby, A.N. Lazar & A. Mukhopadhyay, 2016, Sustainability Science, 1-17
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0356-6
Type: article