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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 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
Integrated assessment of social and environmental sustainability dynamics in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, Bangladesh
R.J. Nicholls, C.W. Hutton, A.N. Lazar, A. Allan, W.N. Adger, H. Adams, J. Wolf, M. Rahman & M. Salehin, 2016, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 183, 370-381
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.08.017
Type: article
Blue carbon stock of the Bangladesh Sundarban mangroves: what could be the scenario after a century?
Abhra Chanda, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Tuhin Ghosh, Anirban Akhand, Parimal Mondal, Subhajit Ghosh, Sandip Mukherjee, Judith Wolf, Attila Lazar, Md. Munsur Rahman, Mashfiqus Salehin, S. M. Chowdhury & Sugata Hazra, 2016, Wetlands, 36(6), 1033-1045
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-016-0819-7
Type: article
Making SDGs work for climate change hotspots
Sylvia Szabo, Robert Nicholls, Barbara Neumann, Fabrice G. Renaud, Zoe Matthews, Zita Sebesvari, Amir AghaKouchak, Roger Bales, Cori Ruktanonchai, Julia Kloos, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Phillipus Wester, Mark New, Jakob Rhyner & Craig Hutton, 2016, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 58(6), 24-33
DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2016.1209016
Type: article