{"id":2171,"date":"2018-03-05T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2018-03-01T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:47:21","slug":"espa-deltas-project-publishes-short-film-on-creating-a-sustainable-future-for-climate-vulnerable-deltas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/03\/05\/espa-deltas-project-publishes-short-film-on-creating-a-sustainable-future-for-climate-vulnerable-deltas\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPA Deltas project publishes short film on creating a sustainable future for climate-vulnerable deltas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espadelta.net\/\">Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Delta Project<\/a> has just published a short film that highlights its findings in Bangladesh. The project was concerned with assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystems and poverty alleviation in populous deltas to provide knowledge and tools to enable policy-makers to evaluate the effects of policy decisions on people&#8217;s livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>A multidisciplinary and multi-national team of policy analysts, social and natural scientists and engineers collectively used a participatory approach to create a model to formally evaluate ecosystem services and poverty in the context of the wide range of changes that are occurring. In the film, DECCMA Principle Investigator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/engineering\/about\/staff\/rjn.page\">Professor Robert Nicholls<\/a> and researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sspp\/departments\/geography\/people\/academic\/adams\/index.aspx\">Dr Helen Adams<\/a> talk about the environmental and social stresses facing delta populations, from salinity and subsidence to poverty and marginalisation.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5b26UtBSeu4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Delta Project has just published a short film that highlights its findings in Bangladesh. The project was concerned with assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystems and poverty alleviation in populous deltas to provide knowledge and tools to enable policy-makers to evaluate the effects of policy decisions on people&#8217;s livelihoods. A multidisciplinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[60,68,62,80,81],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-gbm-bangladesh","tag-bangladesh","tag-delta","tag-delta-plan","tag-ecosystem-services","tag-livelihoods"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-z1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2159,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/02\/19\/espa-deltas-holds-final-workshop-with-the-planning-commission-in-bangladesh\/","url_meta":{"origin":2171,"position":0},"title":"ESPA Deltas holds final workshop with the Planning Commission in Bangladesh","author":"katharinevincent","date":"19th February 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Saiful Alam DECCMA builds on a project under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme - ESPA Deltas. 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