River deltas often support high population densities, and globally are home to over 500 million people. A large proportion of these delta populations experience extremes of poverty and are severely vulnerable to environmental degradation. DELTAS is looking at the relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being and health in the Bangladeshi portion of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta - as well as understanding how it may evolve in the future, and what that tells us about other populous delta regions around the world.
Full Project List
This section holds information about current and recently concluded ESPA projects.
Brochure of current projects (2012)
These are three major ESPA projects with a duration of up to 5 years. These projects will form a major part of the ESPA research portfolio, and will provide significant new knowledge on the relationship between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation.
Four Evidence and Impact Research Grants (EIRGs) have been awarded to increase the impact of the ESPA programme through influencing key policy processes during 2012. The projects will run for up to 12 months.
These projects are exploring short-term, innovative concepts and methodologies for ESPA research.
These grants designed to address any significant unmet opportunities which could help put ESPA’s research into use. ESPA also commissioned a small research project to help understand how research is put into use.
The ESPA Directorate’s Open Access Grants were launched to increase the volume of high-quality evidence, attributable to the ESPA programme, being published in open access journals by ESPA-funded researchers.
Completed Projects
Grants provided catalyst funding in preparation for submitting a proposal for future ESPA grants.
These projects were designed to strengthen research capacity to tackle the complex problems associated with the sustainable management of ecosystems for poverty alleviation.
This section contains details of the early ESPA Situation Analyses. These projects helped to design the research focus of the ESPA programme.
