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

Spatial and temporal dynamics of multidimensional well-being, livelihoods and ecosystem services in coastal Bangladesh

Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger, Ali Ahmed, Dilruba Begum, Attila Lazar, Zoe Matthews, Mohammed Mofizur Rahman & Peter Kim Streatfield, 2016, Scientific Data, 3(160094), 1-11

DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.94

Type: article

Projected changes in area of the Sundarban mangrove forest in Bangladesh due to SLR by 2100

Andres Payo Garcia, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sugata Hazra, Tuhin Ghosh, Subhajit Ghosh, Sally Brown, Robert Nicholls, Lucy Bricheno, Judith Wolf, Susan Kay, Attila Lazar & Anisul Haque, 2016, Climatic Change, 139(2), 279-291

DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1769-z

Type: article

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