{"id":2343,"date":"2018-07-09T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2018-06-30T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T17:14:55","slug":"new-insights-on-climate-change-migration-and-adaptation-in-the-mahanadi-and-indian-bengal-deltas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/07\/09\/new-insights-on-climate-change-migration-and-adaptation-in-the-mahanadi-and-indian-bengal-deltas\/","title":{"rendered":"New insights on climate change, migration and adaptation in the Mahanadi and Indian Bengal deltas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Sumana Banerjee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DECCMA has released two new briefs that outline the latest findings on climate change, migration and adaptation in the Mahanadi and Indian Bengal deltas. Among the highlights are the relationship of migration to climate stress (with most stressed locations sending more migrants in both deltas), the barriers to policy implementation (particularly relating to embankment (re)construction), and lack of gender-sensitive adaptation policies.<\/p>\n<p>The briefs provide an update to our earlier delta briefs (for the <a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/10\/68439-A4-DECCMA-MD_final_web.pdf\">Mahanadi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/10\/68439-A4-DECCMA-IBD_final_web.pdf\">Indian Bengal<\/a> deltas).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2344\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/07\/09\/new-insights-on-climate-change-migration-and-adaptation-in-the-mahanadi-and-indian-bengal-deltas\/ibd-2\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/06\/IBD.jpg?fit=681%2C981&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"681,981\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IBD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/06\/IBD.jpg?fit=665%2C958&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/06\/IBD.jpg?resize=208%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/06\/IBD.jpg?resize=208%2C300&amp;ssl=1 208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/06\/IBD.jpg?resize=153%2C220&amp;ssl=1 153w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/06\/IBD.jpg?w=681&amp;ssl=1 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sumana Banerjee DECCMA has released two new briefs that outline the latest findings on climate change, migration and adaptation in the Mahanadi and Indian Bengal deltas. Among the highlights are the relationship of migration to climate stress (with most stressed locations sending more migrants in both deltas), the barriers to policy implementation (particularly relating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[17,5,35,4,21],"tags":[70,114,63,77,59,56,66,96],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-from-the-countries","category-gbm-india","category-india","category-mahanadi","tag-adaptation","tag-climate-risk","tag-gender","tag-india","tag-indian-bengal-delta","tag-mahanadi","tag-migration","tag-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-BN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1819,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/10\/17\/release-delta-briefs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2343,"position":0},"title":"RELEASE: Delta Briefs","author":"jlawncariaanet","date":"17th October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The DECCMA team are pleased to release a 'Delta Brief' for each of our study sites.\u00a0 The briefs summarise our emerging findings and initial key messages, providing the start of a holistic understanding of climate change, adaptation and migration in each of the deltas. 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