Deltas

A river delta is a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or (more rarely) another river that cannot carry away the supplied sediment. The size and shape of a delta is controlled by the balance between watershed processes that supply sediment, and receiving basin processes that redistribute, sequester, and export that sediment. The size, geometry, and location of the receiving basin also plays an important role in delta evolution. River …

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PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 2 December 2024 English

This comprehensive report, prepared for the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), examines how unsustainable land management practices are …

with declining biodiversity and shrinking river deltas (Grill et al., 2019). In addition, increasing with-


Mine Action Review · 24 November 2024 English

A new mine action decree issued in 2019 and followed by a more detailed Guiding Circular gave VNMAC a clear mandate and responsibilities and provided a legal basis for the …

Quang Tri, Quang Binh, Ha Tinh, Nghe An, and river deltas were extensively mined during the armed conflict


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 November 2024 English

This report highlights the opportunities to strengthen local communities by sharing digital technologies in the mining sector.

regions, coastal zones, open deserts, wetlands, deltas, or rivers—determine what types of digital infrastructures obstructed or unable to reach into valleys. Lowland deltas or seasonal flooding areas can present equally by dense rainforests that have many rivers and deltas, which are subject to annual flooding. Internet communications challenges. Some populations living in the deltas and along rivers are seasonal migrants, and it


World Bank Group · 11 November 2024 English

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) share a collective vision for supporting countries, and public and private sector clients to transition toward an equitable low-carbon and climate-resilient future while continuing to pursue …

ocean and coastal zones, including wetlands, deltas, mangroves, and reefs) that have been improved


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 11 November 2024 English

This report considers how finance and planning ministries can respond strategically to climate risk, highlighting best practices from Southeast Asia and identifying crosscutting priorities.

development in low-lying plains, coastal river deltas, and coastal areas. Regardless of global efforts


Mine Action Review · 11 November 2024

The States Parties in building their capacity to address the impact obligations to clear mined areas and report on progress of mines of an improvised nature within the framework of …

Quang Tri, Quang Binh, Ha Tinh, Nghe An, and river deltas were extensively mined during the armed conflict


World Bank Group · 7 November 2024 English

This document presents three different views of the WBG scorecard: 1. Scorecard view presents all data at the WBG level for a set of 50 indicators (8 Vision indicators, 22 …

ocean and coastal zones, including wetlands, deltas, mangroves, and reefs) that have been improved


IOM: International Organization for Migration · 4 November 2024 English

WORLD MIGRATION REPORT 2024 The opinions expressed in the report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). [...] …

explore migration and adaptation in deltas. DECCMA working paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change:


UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 4 November 2024 English

The scope of this analysis is not to review that have been set.6 This section of the chapter articulates the exposure past and future risk engendered by climate change in …

IPCC estimates that global mean sea while fertile deltas and resources from the sea have offered a reliable expansion level—around the world. in many coastal deltas now must contend with their high exposure to 84 vulnerable to sea-level rise, namely the Nile and Ganges deltas. Several regions where the exposure to sea-level


WaterAid · 4 November 2024 English

are mainly expressed through changes in Climate change and increasing demand for the water cycle and water quality, impacts water will accentuate interdependencies on human health, and changes in the …

treatment, have an impact on densely-populated deltas and estuaries in fish behaviour in coastal ecosystems


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