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This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policy-orientated analysis for the future of these regions. It does so by focusing on ecosystem services in the world’s largest, most populous and most iconic delta region, that of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. The book covers the conceptual basis, research approaches and challenges, while also providing a methodology for integration across multiple disciplines, offering a potential prototype for assessments of deltas worldwide. Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas analyses changing ecosystem services in deltas; the health and well-being of people reliant on them; the continued central role of agriculture and fishing; and the implications of aquaculture in such environments.The analysis is brought together in an integrated and accessible way to examine the future of the Ganges Brahmaputra delta based on a near decade of research by a team of the world’s leading scientists on deltas and their human and environmental dimensions. This book is essential reading for students and academics within the fields of Environmental Geography, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy focused on solving the world’s most critical challenges of balancing humans with their environments. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .

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During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.

Research & information: general --- digital elevation model --- maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) classification --- runoff quality --- social, economic and environmental (SEE) factor --- Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) --- urbanization --- vegetation density --- stormwater management --- social factors --- green stormwater infrastructure --- society --- risk analysis --- water-related crises --- resilience --- security --- floods --- drinking water --- crisis planning --- landslides --- logistic regression --- slope gradient --- land use --- soil --- Coonoor --- behavior --- trust --- risk --- tap water --- salience --- common pool resources --- integrated water management --- water governance --- water resilience --- socio-hydrology --- irrigation efficiency --- surface water-groundwater interactions --- sustainability --- knowledge coproduction --- integrated local environmental knowledge --- education and training --- community-based water development --- Black Sea --- coastal tourism --- regional climate change --- warming --- wind --- waves --- sea level rise --- upwelling --- heavy rain --- river plume --- algal bloom --- introduced species