Impact

Through fostering collaboration among various academic disciplines and with societal partners, researchers from Utrecht University thrive to create impact on sustainable delta development.

The community provides policy makers and delta managers with the essential scientific basis for informed decision-making on pathways towards sustainable deltas through its:

• research activities and output;
• workshops;
• set-up of collaborative living labs;
• knowledge sharing and dissemination;
• policy briefs;
• educational activities.

Research videos

Dam construction and other human activities are putting the world’s deltas at risk, as they reduce the delivery of sediment to delta areas. Urgent action is needed to minimise the disruption of sediment delivery and improve delta resilience, argues Frances Dunn.

Using a new three-dimensional groundwater model of the Mekong delta, researchers from Utrecht University and Deltares including Philip Minderhoud have shown by how much and where the land is subsiding due to groundwater extraction.