{"id":2367,"date":"2018-07-23T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2018-07-14T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:52:43","slug":"report-on-deccma-and-delta-alliance-convened-session-at-adaptation-futures-2018-adaptation-practice-and-experience-in-deltas-in-the-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/07\/23\/report-on-deccma-and-delta-alliance-convened-session-at-adaptation-futures-2018-adaptation-practice-and-experience-in-deltas-in-the-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on DECCMA and Delta Alliance-convened session at Adaptation Futures 2018 “Adaptation practice and experience in deltas in the global south”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Katharine Vincent and Peter van Veelen<\/em><\/p>\n

DECCMA and the Delta Alliance<\/a> recently co-convened a session on 21st June at Adaptation Futures 2018<\/a> in Cape Town on the topic “Adaptation practice and experience in deltas in the global south”. The session included presentations from both DECCMA and Delta Alliance members.<\/p>\n

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Ricardo Safra de Campos presents on “Migration as an adaptation”<\/p><\/div>\n

DECCMA PI Robert Nicholls chaired the session. Katharine Vincent from Kulima Integrated Development Solutions<\/a> presented research on observed adaptations in deltaic Ghana, India and Bangladesh and Ricardo Safra De Campos from the University of Exeter<\/a> presented the first research findings of the DECCMA project on \u201cMigration as an adaptation\u201d. The presentation showed that households in deltas employ a variety of adaptation strategies in the face of environmental and climate risk, including migration.<\/p>\n

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The Delta Alliance Egypt and Ghana wing coordinators presented experiences in delta planning and management. Professor Mohamed Soliman from the Coastal Research Institute presented innovative ways to create natural flood defenses and sand dunes along Alexandria\u2019s coast to stop recurrent coastal flooding. Ken Kinney from the Development Institute<\/a> in Ghana, presented the challenges of the Volta delta and the process of establishing a network of knowledge institutes, governments and local communities to work on integral land use planning. Both presentations showed that a holistic coastal management plan is needed that integrates coastal management with economic and land use planning.<\/p>\n

As with all sessions at Adaptation Futures 2018, DECCMA and the Delta Alliance were invited to provide three “takeaway” points for consideration by the authors of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report. The points were:<\/p>\n

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  1. There is a growing body of literature highlighting the potential future of deltas under climate change, taking into account sea level rise and sediment flux, among others.<\/li>\n
  2. Hard adaptations such as embankments are critical to protect infrastructure, lives and livelihoods in deltas.<\/li>\n
  3. There is evidence of a variety of household adaptations in deltas, which include in situ adaptations and migration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    by Katharine Vincent and Peter van Veelen DECCMA and the Delta Alliance recently co-convened a session on 21st June at Adaptation Futures 2018 in Cape Town on the topic “Adaptation practice and experience in deltas in the global south”. The session included presentations from both DECCMA and Delta Alliance members. DECCMA PI Robert Nicholls chaired […]<\/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":[8],"tags":[70,60,68,58,71,77,59,122,66,57],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-meetings","tag-adaptation","tag-bangladesh","tag-delta","tag-ganges-brahmaputra-meghna","tag-ghana","tag-india","tag-indian-bengal-delta","tag-mahanadi-delta","tag-migration","tag-volta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-Cb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2282,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/05\/21\/come-and-hear-more-about-deccma-research-at-adaptation-futures-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":2367,"position":0},"title":"Come and hear more about DECCMA research at Adaptation Futures 2018","author":"katharinevincent","date":"21st May 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"DECCMA researchers will be participating in the following sessions at Adaptation Futures 2018 in Cape Town: Monday 18th June Robert Nicholls will participate in S80 on \"Adaptive coastal planning-sharing techniques, tools and experiences\", run by Deltares (parallel session 2, 1500-1700, room 2.64). 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