Deltas in the Anthropocene
This multi-disciplinary, policy-orientatedvolume is strongly aligned to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals as delta populations often experience extremes of poverty, gender and structural inequality, variable levels of health and well-being, while being vulnerable to extreme and syste...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Delta challenges and trade-offs from the Holocene to the Anthropocene
- 2. Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh and India: A transnational mega-delta
- 3. The Mahanadi Delta: A rapidly developing delta in India
- 4. The Volta Delta, Ghana: challenges in an African setting
- 5. Fluvial sediment supply and relative sea-level rise
- 6. Hotspots of present and future risk within deltas; hazards, exposure and vulnerability
- 7. Where people live and move in deltas
- 8. Delta economics and sustainability
- 9. Adapting to change: People and policies
- 10. Choices: Future trade-offs and plausible pathways
- 11. Sustainable deltas in the Anthropocene