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Deltaic Environments, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration as Adaptation (DECCMA)

Project overview

DECCMA is a 4 year, IDRC-funded, CAD$13.5million programme of applied research on the adaptation options, limits and potential in deltaic environments to current weather variability and extremes, as well as climate change. The project ran from February 2014 to September 2018. Research focussed on four deltas – the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (Bangladesh and India); the Nile (Egypt); the Volta (Ghana); and the Mahanadi (India). Large tracts of land at low elevation make deltas vulnerable to sea-level rise, but they also experience climate impacts such as droughts and fluvial flooding. Deltas have some of the highest population densities in the world with 500 million, often poor, residents. Key outputs all free to download:

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Nicholls

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
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

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Professor Craig Hutton

Director Sustainability&Resilience Inst.

Professor Emma Tompkins

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

Emeritus Professor John Dearing

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Energy and Climate Change Group

The research group seeks engineering solutions for reliable, affordable and sustainable energy stemming from renewable resources.

GeoData

We manage, analyse and process environmental data. Our consultancy services and interdisciplinary research projects range from managing river catchments and coastal zones to the wider fields of environment, social and economic development.

Landscape Dynamics and Ecology

Researching the changing environments and landscapes using the appliction of novel methodological approaches.

Research outputs

Adapting to change: People and policies
Emma Tompkins,
Katharine Vincent,
Natalie R Suckall,
Rezaur Rahman,
Tuhin Ghosh,
Adelina Mensah,
Kirk Anderson,
Alexander Chapman,
Giorgia Prati,
Craig Hutton,
Sophie A. Day,
& Victoria, Sian Price
, 2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23517-8_9
Type: bookChapter
A framework to analyse the implications of coastal transformation on inclusive development
Natalie Suckall,
Emma Tompkins,
& Katharine Vincent
, 2019 , Environmental Science & Policy , 96 , 64--69
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.003
Type: article
Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement
Emma L. Tompkins,
Katharine Vincent,
Robert J. Nicholls,
& Natalie Suckall
, 2018 , Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.545
Type: article
What are the implications of sea-level rise for a 1.5°C, 2°C and 3°C rise in global mean temperatures in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and other vulnerable deltas?
Sally Brown,
Robert J. Nicholls,
Attila N. Lazar,
Duncan D. Hornby,
Chris Hill,
Sugata Hazra,
Kwasi Appeaning Addo ,
Anisul Haque,
John Caesar,
& Emma L. Tompkins
, 2018 , Regional Environmental Change
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-018-1311-0
Type: article
A framework for identifying and selecting long term adaptation policy directions for deltas
Natalie Suckall,
Emma L. Tompkins,
Robert J. Nicholls,
Abiy S. Kebede,
Attila N. Lázár,
Craig Hutton,
Katharine Vincent,
Andrew Allan,
Alex Chapman,
Rezaur Rahman,
Tuhin Ghosh,
& Adelina Mensah
, 2018 , Science of the Total Environment , 633 , 946--957
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.234
Type: article
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