{"id":2708,"date":"2019-03-06T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:39:58","slug":"new-deccma-brief-climate-change-and-the-economic-future-of-deltas-in-africa-and-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2019\/03\/06\/new-deccma-brief-climate-change-and-the-economic-future-of-deltas-in-africa-and-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"New DECCMA brief &#8220;Climate change and the economic future of deltas in Africa and Asia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DECCMA Economics team have released a new policy brief &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/02\/DECCMA_Deltas.pdf\">Climate change and the economic future of deltas in Africa and Asia<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 The policy brief is led by the team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc3research.org\/\">Basque Centre for Climate Change<\/a>, and summarises some of the key findings on the current and future economic status of deltas, taking into account climate change, and distills information from papers published in the peer-reviewed literature (including &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2018.08.139\">The socioeconomic future of deltas in a changing environment<\/a>&#8221; by Arto et al).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2705\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/resources\/briefs\/wp4-brief\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/02\/Wp4-brief-e1551874448522.jpg?fit=300%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,428\" 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=\"Wp4 brief\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/02\/Wp4-brief-e1551874448522.jpg?fit=300%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2705\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/02\/Wp4-brief-e1551874448522.jpg?resize=300%2C428\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The brief highlights how climate change has the potential to reduce GDP per capita by 8.5-14.5% in the deltas, through impacts on infrastructure, agriculture and fisheries. Traditional adaptation options, such as embankments and protection and restoration of mangroves, could only reduce these effects by\u00a0up to 40-50%, thus minimising but not ruling\u00a0out negative impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DECCMA Economics team have released a new policy brief &#8220;Climate change and the economic future of deltas in Africa and Asia&#8220;.\u00a0 The policy brief is led by the team from the Basque Centre for Climate Change, and summarises some of the key findings on the current and future economic status of deltas, taking into [&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":[17,18,35,21,22],"tags":[70,155,75,60,68,153,154,58,71,77,59,56,57],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-gbm-bangladesh","category-gbm-india","category-mahanadi","category-volta","tag-adaptation","tag-africa","tag-asia","tag-bangladesh","tag-delta","tag-economic-impact","tag-economy","tag-ganges-brahmaputra-meghna","tag-ghana","tag-india","tag-indian-bengal-delta","tag-mahanadi","tag-volta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-HG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2016\/06\/02\/examples-of-adaptation-to-climate-change-in-deltas\/","url_meta":{"origin":2708,"position":0},"title":"Examples of adaptation to climate change in deltas","author":"Lucy Graves","date":"2nd June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The DECCMA WP6 partners have been recording examples of adaptation that are in practice across our study sites. 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