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Deltas in the Anthropocene

Deltas in the Anthropocene

Nicholls, Robert J.
Adger, W. Neil
Hutton, Craig W.

Hardcover

Business GeneralGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 3030235165
ISBN13: 9783030235161
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 13 2019
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world's deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use change, the damming of rivers, the engineering of coasts and the growth of some of the world's largest megacities; deltas are home to one in twelve of all people in the world. The book explores bio-physical and social dynamics and makes clear adaptation choices and trade-offs that underpin policy and governance processes, including visionary delta management plans. It details new analysis to illustrate these challenges, based on three significant and contrasting deltas: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Mahanadi and Volta.

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