Delta sustainability from the Holocene to the Anthropocene and envisioning the future

Anthony, Edward, Syvitski, Jaia, Zăinescu, Florin, Nicholls, Robert J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9715-1109, Cohen, Kim M., Marriner, Nick, Saito, Yoshiki, Day, John, Minderhoud, Philip S. J., Amorosi, Alessandro, Chen, Zhongyuan, Morhange, Christophe, Tamura, Toru, Vespremeanu-Stroe, Alfred, Besset, Manon, Sabatier, François, Kaniewski, David and Maselli, Vittorio (2024) Delta sustainability from the Holocene to the Anthropocene and envisioning the future. Nature Sustainability, 7 (10). pp. 1235-1246. ISSN 2398-9629

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Abstract

River deltas offer numerous ecosystem services and host an estimated global population of 350 million to more than 500 million inhabitants in over 100 countries. To maintain their sustainability into the future, deltas need to withstand sea-level rise from global warming, but human pressures and diminishing sediment supplies are exacerbating their vulnerability. In this Review, we show how deltas have served as environmental incubators for societal development over the past 7,000 years, and how this tightly interlocked relationship now poses challenges to deltas globally. Without climate stabilization, the sustainability of populous low-to-mid-latitude deltas will be difficult to maintain, probably terminating the delta–human relationship that we know today.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geography, planning and development,food science,nature and landscape conservation,management, monitoring, policy and law,global and planetary change,ecology,renewable energy, sustainability and the environment,urban studies,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2024 15:30
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2024 15:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97570
DOI:	10.1038/s41893-024-01426-3

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