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ESPA Deltas:

ESPA Deltas: ASSESSING HEALTH, LIVELIHOODS, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN POPULOUS DELTAS: OBJECTIVES AND PROGRESS. Prof. Robert J. Nicholls University of Southampton www.espadelta.net. ESPA Delta: Overall Aim.

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ESPA Deltas:

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  1. ESPA Deltas: ASSESSING HEALTH, LIVELIHOODS, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN POPULOUS DELTAS: OBJECTIVES AND PROGRESS Prof. Robert J. Nicholls University of Southampton www.espadelta.net

  2. ESPA Delta: Overall Aim To provide policy makers with the knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate the effects of policy decisions on ecosystem services and people's livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh

  3. Main Study Site

  4. TheDelta

  5. ESPA Delta: Project Aims To understand the present relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being and health. To predict how these ecosystem services might evolve over the coming years and decades (up to 50 -100 years) [Timeframe of the Bangladesh Delta Plan] To analyse how policy can influence these outcomes and promote ecosystem services and human well-being and health. To select robust policies that are effective across the range of uncertainty. Using participatory approaches.

  6. Project Structure

  7. Participatory Aspects • Stakeholder mapping • Identifying stakeholder issues (and questions) • Defining credible scenarios of the future • Interpreting future simulations/proposing policy interventions (iterative process) • Project legacy

  8. ESPA Deltas: ASSESSING HEALTH, LIVELIHOODS, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN POPULOUS DELTAS: OBJECTIVES AND PROGRESS Prof. Robert J. Nicholls University of Southampton www.espadelta.net

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