Call for papers for special issue 'sustainable deltas: livelihoods, ecosystem services and policy implications'

摘要

Marine and lacustrine delta regions account for approximately 1 % of the land area but are home to more than 500 million people and play a key role in agricultural and aquaculture production. Local cultivation of staples, such as that of rice in Western Bengal, not only contributes to improving households' livelihood outcomes, but also reduces regional food insecurity risk. At the same time, deltaic systems are amongst the world's most threatened socio-ecological environments-a situation which is projected to aggravate due to the impact of climate change. Delta regions constitute vulnerable socio-ecological systems and, thus, need to develop additional resilience, in particular in the context of climate change and increasing human exploration in the upstream basins and locally. While extensive research exists on delta regions investigating bio-geophysical properties of river deltas, there is limited evidence examining the interlinkages between ecosystem services and livelihoods in delta regions from a broader multidisciplinary perspective.