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| Meeting report Vietnam Red River Wing: Red River Delta issues and initiatives (1 August 2017) The Red River Delta Wing organised on 1 August a meeting to comprehensively review issues causing the decrease of water level in the Red River and assess the possibility of combining remote sensing and citizen science in solving the problem. Delta Alliance Vietnam Red River Wing, Thursday 17 August 2017 |
| Meeting report: Ghana Wing 2nd Stakeholders meeting (9 June 2017) The second meeting of the Delta Alliance-Ghana Wing took place on the 9 June 2017 in Accra, Ghana and was organised by the Development Institute with a financial support from Delta Alliance Secretariat, Netherlands.
This was a follow-up to the first critical stakeholders’ meeting which took place in February, 2017. This second meeting aimed to define the strategic management framework of the Ghana Wing. Delta Alliance Ghana Wing, Wednesday 2 August 2017 |
| Meeting report: Sustainable management of deltas in Kenya-policy and decision dialogue Round Table consultative meeting (26 May 2017) The objective of the workshop was to engage with stakeholders (policy and decision makers) from Lake Victoria Region (16 counties) and to share experiences from other deltas under Delta Alliance Initiative and to start the Nyando Delta Plan development consultations. Delta Alliance Kenya Wing, Tuesday 25 July 2017 |
Delta Alliance flyer in Arabic Delta Alliance flyer 2016 in Arabic (with thanks to the Egypt Wing). Delta Alliance Egypt Wing, Tuesday 25 July 2017 |
| Meeting report: Resilience of Nile Delta and Adaptation Options under Climate Change (25 May 2017) The Delta Alliance Egypt Wing organised on 25 May 2017 a meeting titled Resilience of Nile Delta and Adaptation Options under Climate Change. Delta Alliance Egypt Wing, Monday 24 July 2017 |
| Report: Flood Delta City Index, Drivers to Support Adaptation of Cities To help decision makers in delta areas to select appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies it is necessary to have a clear picture of the main sources of risk and how this risk evolves under changing conditions. Because flood risk is often considered an urgent but almost never acute problem, it is difficult to keep flood risk on the investment agenda. Acknowledging these problems, the Delta Alliance and the TU Delft took the initiative to develop a new index that helps cities to better understand the dominant drivers of risk, formulate ambitions, and compare and share their results with other delta regions. Delta Alliance International Secretariat, Tuesday 18 July 2017 |
| Meeting report: Roundtable for a Dialogue on the Reconquista River Basin (31 May 2017) The Roundtable for a Dialogue on the Reconquista River Basin was organised by the Delta Alliance Argentinean Wing, Fundación Torcuato Di Tella, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Comité de Cuenca del Río Reconquista (COMIREC)-Reconquista Basin Committee. A full meeting report is available. Delta Alliance Argentina Wing, Wednesday 14 June 2017 |
| CEGIS newsletter, Issue 50, October-December 2016 In this newsletter a.o.: Participatory Approach to Formulate Action Plans for SDG 6 in Bangladesh; Training on Concept of Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation Measures; Regional Workshop and Regional Council Meeting of Global Water Partnership South Asia. Center for Environmental and (CEGIS), Bangladesh, Tuesday 11 April 2017 |
| Newsletter update Myanmar (issue 1, February 2017), Myanmar-Netherlands collaboration Recent developments in the field of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the Ayeyarwady delta in Myanmar are published in the February 2017 issue of the newsletter. This newsletter is a joint initiative of the Ministries of Infrastructure & Environment and Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Yangon. The agencies are working closely together with the Delegated Representative Water to find business opportunities and stay in close communication with the Dutch water sector. In this issue a.o.: Learning by Doing Projects, Integrated Ayeyarwady Delta Strategy, Conferences and exhibitions: World Water Day 13 and 14 March, Infrastructure Summit, MyanWater / Myanmar Water 19-31 March, Incoming high level delegation, 19 April (tbc). Netherlands Water Partnership, Thursday 9 March 2017 |
| Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts In this study, we show that pressure from natural enemies regulates an ecosystem’s resilience to severe droughts. Field experiments revealed that in protected salt marshes experiencing a severe drought, plant-eating grazers eliminated drought-stressed vegetation that could otherwise survive and recover from the climate extreme, transforming once lush marshes into persistent salt barrens. Our study highlights that natural enemies can hasten an ecosystem’s resilience to drought to much lower levels than currently predicted, calling for integration into climate change predictions and conservation strategies. Ecology Letters, Wednesday 1 February 2017 |