This  project  seeks to study what adaptation pathways to sea-level rise do vulnerable residents create or are part of in deltas. It has been shown that adaptation is a social process and pathways are intricately linked to social hierarchies, power structures, and thus affects who becomes marginalized. The paths of different groups (such as youth, older adults and women) as they adapt to change are interwoven with each other which affects social mobility or reifies inequality . Further, adaptation trajectories are embedded within social and environmental contexts across scales. The pathway lens our project uses aims to understand the different routes different groups have taken in the past, are currently taking, and will thus likely take in the future.By using this lens, our findings can help build knowledge for both citizens and government agencies about the likely effects of sea-level rise on vulnerable groups and how to develop resilient pathways to help these groups. Conducting this research in a number of deltas will
enable us to discover similarities and diversities between the cases.

• prof. dr. Ajay Bailey

• Dr. M. Bayrak; Dr. D. Marks. Dr. S. Jehangir