Integrated knowledge for future delta life

Deltas are attractive areas to live in and therefore densely populated. However they are threatened by human impact and climate change. Dealing with these threats requires a solid understanding of how natural and societal systems interact. Future Deltas develops integrated knowledge for future delta life.

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Polder in the Netherlands
Understanding Drivers

Understand the complex interactions among physical, biological and chemical processes and human interventions that affect subsidence and loss of ecosystem services.

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New Orleans Flood
Predicting Impacts

Assess and predict impacts of subsidence and associated loss of ecosystem services in deltas. 

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People plant young tree in deep mud in mangrove reforestation project
Optimizing Solutions

Analyze, evaluate and improve management strategies to deal with impacts of subsidence and loss of ecosystem services.

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News

Marlou Slot and Philip Minderhoud
10 April 2018
Marlou Slot and Philip Minderhoud win Breaking Science Heat 1
The winners will compete in the Breaking Science 2018 final of 23 April
Kustgebied
1 March 2018
Subsidence will be higher than sea level rise at 6% of global coastline
Isolde Glissenaar from Utrecht University combined, for the first time, sea level rise with land subsidence data on a global scale.
Liping Dai
30 January 2018
Future Deltas seed-money results in two scientific articles on water management in cities
The Future Deltas seed-money project (call 2015) of Dr. Liping Dai has recently resulted in two publications on water management in China, and the Netherlands.
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