Sylvia Szabo, Md Sarwar Hossain, W. Neil Adger, Zoë Matthews et al.
As a creeping process, salinisation represents a significant long-term environmental risk in coastal and deltaic environments. Excess soil salinity may exacerbate existing risks of food insecurity in densely populated tropical deltas, which is likely to have a negative effect on human and ecological...
Abiy S. Kebede, Robert J. Nicholls, Andrew Allan, Iñaki Arto et al.
project with the purpose of exploring migration and adaptation in three deltas across West Africa and South Asia: (i) the Volta delta (Ghana), (ii) the Mahanadi delta (India), and (iii) the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta (Bangladesh/India). Using a climate scenario that encompasses a wide ran...
Andrés Payo, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sugata Hazra, Tuhin Ghosh et al.
The Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem, located in India and Bangladesh, is recognized as a global priority for biodiversity conservation and is an important provider of ecosystem services such as numerous goods and protection against storm surges. With global mean sea-level rise projected as up to 0.98 ...
Attila N. Lázár, D. Clarke, Helen Adams, Abdur Akanda et al.
Coastal Bangladesh experiences significant poverty and hazards today and is highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change over the coming decades. Coastal stakeholders are demanding information to assist in the decision making processes, including simulation models to explore how different i...
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, Attila N. Lázár, Andrew Allan et al.
Deltas provide diverse ecosystem services and benefits for their populations. At the same time, deltas are also recognised as one of the most vulnerable coastal environments, with a range of drivers operating at multiple scales, from global climate change and sea-level rise to deltaic-scale subsiden...
Mahin Al Nahian, Ali Ahmed, Attila N. Lázár, Craig W. Hutton et al.
Salinity intrusion in coastal Bangladesh has serious population health implications, which are yet to be clearly understood. The study was undertaken through the ‘Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Populous Deltas’ project in coastal Bangladesh. Drinking wat...
Fiifi Amoako Johnson, Craig W. Hutton, Duncan Hornby, Attila N. Lázár et al.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of Bangladesh is one of the most populous deltas in the world, supporting as many as 140 million people. The delta is threatened by diverse environmental stressors including salinity intrusion, with adverse consequences for livelihood and health. Shrimp farming is...
Sally Brown, Robert J. Nicholls, Attila N. Lázár, Duncan Hornby et al.
Even if climate change mitigation is successful, sea levels will keep rising. With subsidence, relative sea-level rise represents a long-term threat to low-lying deltas. A large part of coastal Bangladesh was analysed using the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model to determine changes in flood de...
José A. Fernandes, Susan Kay, Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain, Munir Ahmed et al.
Abstract The fisheries sector is crucial to the Bangladeshi economy and wellbeing, accounting for 4.4% of national gross domestic product and 22.8% of agriculture sector production, and supplying ca. 60% of the national animal protein intake. Fish is vital to the 16 million Bangladeshis living near ...
Craig W. Hutton, Robert J. Nicholls, Attila N. Lázár, Alex Chapman et al.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are offered as a comprehensive strategy to guide and encourage sustainable development at multiple scales both nationally and internationally. Furthermore, through the development of indicators associated with each goal and sub-goal, the SDGs support the noti...
G. M. Tarekul Islam, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, Ahsan Azhar Shopan, Md Munsur Rahman et al.
Ecosystems provide the basis for human civilization and natural capital for green economy and sustainable development. Ecosystem services may range from crops, fish, freshwater to those that are harder to see such as erosion regulation, carbon sequestration, and pest control. Land use changes have b...
Natalie Suckall, Emma L. Tompkins, Robert J. Nicholls, Abiy S. Kebede et al.
Deltas are precarious environments experiencing significant biophysical, and socio-economic changes with the ebb and flow of seasons (including with floods and drought), with infrastructural developments (such as dikes and polders), with the movement of people, and as a result of climate and environ...
Andrés Payo, Attila N. Lázár, D. Clarke, Robert J. Nicholls et al.
Abstract Understanding the dynamics of salt movement in the soil is a prerequisite for devising appropriate management strategies for land productivity of coastal regions, especially low‐lying delta regions, which support many millions of farmers around the world. At present, there are no numerical ...
Abhra Chanda, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Tuhin Ghosh, Anirban Akhand et al.
The total blue carbon stock of the Bangladesh Sundarban mangroves was evaluated and the probable future status after a century was predicted based on the recent trend of changes in the last 30 years and implementing a hybrid model of Markov Chain and Cellular automata. At present 36.24 Tg C and 54.9...
Attila N. Lázár, Robert J. Nicholls, Jim W. Hall, Emily Barbour et al.
Abstract Bangladesh is one of the most climate-sensitive countries globally, creating significant challenges for future development. Here we apply an integrated assessment model — Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model (ΔDIEM) — to the south-west coastal zone of Bangladesh to explore the outcomes o...
Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger, Sate Ahmad, Ali Ahmed et al.
Populations in resource dependent economies gain well-being from the natural environment, in highly spatially and temporally variable patterns. To collect information on this, we designed and implemented a 1586-household quantitative survey in the southwest coastal zone of Bangladesh. Data were coll...
M. Shahjahan Mondal, Abul Fazal M. Saleh, Md. Abdur Razzaque Akanda, Sujit K. Biswas et al.
The FAO AquaCrop model has been widely applied throughout the world to simulate crop responses to deficit water applications. However, its application to saline conditions is not yet reported, though saline soils are common in coastal areas. In this study, we parameterized and tested AquaCrop to sim...
Attila N. Lázár, Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger, Robert J. Nicholls
Resource-based livelihoods are uncertain and potentially unstable due to variability over time, including seasonal variation: this instability threatens marginalised populations who may fall into poverty. However, empirical understanding of trajectories of household well-being and poverty is limited...
Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Duncan Hornby, Craig W. Hutton, Attila N. Lázár et al.
Land cover and land use (LCLU) analysis is a central determinant of the current and future relationship between people and local ecosystem services. It provides the spatial basis for the integrated analysis of the study area. Historical change (1989–2010) is identified using classification technique...
D. Clarke, Attila N. Lázár, Abul Fazal M. Saleh, M. Jahiruddin
Agriculture is the largest and most important provisioning ecosystem in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta and is significantly affected by levels of soil and water salinity. Model-based assessment using both soil moisture and salt balance models indicate that whilst monsoon rains supply adequate w...