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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

Recent trends of human wellbeing in the Bangladesh delta
Md Sarwar Hossain, Fiifi Amoako Johnson, John A. Dearing & Felix Eigenbrod, 2016, Environmental Development, 17, 21-32
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2015.09.008
Type: article
A first look at the influence of anthropogenic climate change on the future delivery of fluvial sediment to the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta
Stephen E. Darby, Frances E. Dunn, R.J. Nicholls, Munsur Rahman & Liam Riddy, 2015, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 17(9), 1587-1600
DOI: 10.1039/c5em00252d
Type: article
Modelling the increased frequency of extreme sea levels in the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta due to sea level rise and other effects of climate change
S. Kay, J. Caesar, J. Wolf, L. Bricheno, R.J. Nicholls, A.K.M. Saiful Islam, A. Haque, A. Pardeans & J. Lowe, 2015, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 17(7), 1311-1322
DOI: 10.1039/c4em00683f
Type: article
The hydro-environment and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh
Attila Lazar, Robert J Nicholls, Craig Hutton, Helen Adams, Andres Payo, Mashfiqus Salehin, Anisul Haque, Derek Clarke, Lucy Bricheno, J.A. Fernandes, Emily Barbour, Andrew Allan, Dilruba Begum & Sylvia Szabo, 2015
Type: conference
The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna delta system: biophysical models to support analysis of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
Robert J. Nicholls, Paul Whitehead, Judith Wolf, Munsur Rahman & Mashfiqus Salehin, 2015, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 17(6), 1016-1017
DOI: 10.1039/C5EM90022K
Type: article
Agricultural livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh under climate and environmental change - a model framework
A.N. Lazar, D. Clarke, H. Adams, A.R. Akanda, S. Szabo, R.J. Nicholls, Z. Matthews, D. Begum, A.F.M. Saleh, A. Abedin, A. Payo, P.K. Streatfield, C.W. Hutton, M.S. Mondal & A. Z. Md. Moslehuddin, 2015, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 17(6), 1018-1031
DOI: 10.1039/C4EM00600C
Type: article
Simulating yield response of rice to salinity stress with the AquaCrop model
M. Shahjahan Mondal, Abul Fazal M. Saleh, Md. Abdur Razzaque Akanda, Sujit K. Biswas, Abu Zofar Md. Moslehuddin, Sinora Zaman, Attila N. Lazar & Derek Clarke, 2015, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 1-9
DOI: 10.1039/c5em00095e
Type: article