The goal of the project is to provide policy makers with the knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate the effects of policy decisions on ecosystem services and people’s livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh.

Key findings include the development of a model on future poverty/ecosystem services based on climate change (Delta DIEM). It was found e.g. that about one third of the poor do not have access to ecosystem services. It was also found that development parameters (road connectivity) are more important than climate change. 

Renske Peters, Executive Director of the Delta Alliance, gave a presentation of management of the populated and developed delta in the Netherlands. She also addressed deltas in the urban agenda and the way in which the Delta Alliance supports and promotes knowledge development and sharing in 17 deltas worldwide.

As a follow up the Delta Alliance will provide a short report on its website, make the information available to interested members/wings, and present a follow up with the principal investigator, Robert Nichols, of Southamptom University, on possible collaboration in the future.

More information on ESPA Deltas Project
Dr Md Munsur Rahman, Professor, Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Report by
Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Wageningen University & Research (), as contribution to the core team of the Delta Alliance.

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