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Deltas in the Anthropocene (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Deltas in the Anthropocene (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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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. This multi-disciplinary, policy-orientated volume is
strongly aligned to the United Nation's Sustainable Development
Goals as delta populations often experience extremes of poverty,
gender and structural inequality, variable levels of health and
well-being, while being vulnerable to extreme and systematic
climate change.
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