Project Profile: DELTAS
Catalyzing Action towards Sustainability of Deltaic Systems with an Integrated Modelling Framework for Risk Assessment
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Regents of the University of Minnesota, United States |
| Partners: | Kazi Ahmed, University of Dhaka, Senegal Edward Anthony, Aix-Marseille University, France Eduardo Brondizio, Indiana University, United States Marcel Marchand, Deltares, Netherlands Claudia Kuenzer, Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Marc Goichot, World Wide Fund for Nature, Germany Steven Goodbred, Vanderbilt University, United States Ian Harrison, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, United States Jonathan Hutton, United Nations Environment Programme, United Kingdom Zoe Matthews, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Van Nguyen, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam Irina Overeem, University of Colorado, United States Ramesh Ramachandran, Anna University, India Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University, Japan Yoshiki Saito, Geological Survey of Japan, Japan Md. Munsur Rahman, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Alice Newton, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway Gwyn Lintern, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Philippe Van Cappellen, University of Waterloo, Canada Shu Gao, Nanjing University, China Stefan Dech, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Charles Vorosmarty, City College of New York, United States Sandra Costa, University of Vale do Paraíba, Brazil Rob Nicholls, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Angela Baschieri, University of Southampton, United Kingdom John Dearing, University of Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Sponsors: | São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil French National Research Agency, France German Research Foundation, Germany Ministry of Earth Sciences, India Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan National Environment Research Council, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Catalyzing Action towards Sustainability of Deltaic Systems with an Integrated Modelling Framework for Risk Assessment |
| Full Call Title: | Coastal2012 |
| Website: | https://delta.umn.edu/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | The project will develop a versatile modeling framework that may be applied from local to national levels to evaluate the unique functioning, critical stressors, and vulnerability of the world's deltas. The framework will ingest social, economic, physical and ecosystem data into an open-access repository and will allow planners to model and deliver optimized, viable solutions for their region. In areas for which detailed data are sparse, an infrastructure for critical data gathering will be developed and modeling and prediction tools will be customized. |
| Call Objective: | The purpose of this call was to promote the development, comparison and transfer of coastal scientific approaches. The focus was on the vulnerability, resilience and adaptation options of coastal societal, managed and natural systems to multiple drivers. |
Where?
| Regions: | Asia, South America |
| Countries: | Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Vietnam |
When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | 2012 |
| Project Award Date: | 2012 |
