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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

Ecosystem services, well-being and deltas
W. Neil Adger, Helen Adams, Susan Kay, Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, Susan E. Hanson, Md Munsur Rahman & Mashfiqus Salehin, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_1
Type: bookChapter
Hypertension and malnutrition as health outcomes related to ecosystem services
Ali Ahmed, Mahin Al Nahian, Craig W. Hutton & Attila N. Lázár, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_27
Type: bookChapter
Integrating science and policy through stakeholder-engaged scenarios
Emily J. Barbour, Andrew Allan, Mashfiqus Salehin, John Caesar, Robert J. Nicholls & Craig W. Hutton, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_9
Type: bookChapter
Integrative analysis applying the delta dynamic integrated emulator model in south-west Coastal Bangladesh
Attila N. Lázár, Andres Payo, Helen Adams, Ali Ahmed, Andrew Allan, Abdur Razzaque Akanda, F. Amoako Johnson, Emily J. Barbour, Sujit Kumar Biswas, John Caesar, Alexander Chapman, Derek Clarke, Jose A. Fernandes, Anisul Haque, Mostafa A.R. Hossain, Alistair Hunt, Craig W. Hutton, Susan Kay, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Robert J. Nicholls, Abul Fazal M. Saleh, Mashfiqus Salehin, Sylvia Szabo & Paul G. Whitehead, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_28
Type: bookChapter
Integrative analysis for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, Bangladesh
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_4
Type: bookChapter
Land cover and land use analysis in coastal Bangladesh
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Duncan D. Hornby, Craig W. Hutton, Attila N. Lázár, F. Amoako Johnson & Tuhin Ghosh, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_20
Type: bookChapter
Present and future fluvial, tidal and storm surge flooding in coastal Bangladesh
Anisul Haque, Susan Kay & Robert J. Nicholls, 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_16
Type: bookChapter