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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HPA: Water Policy Association · 21 November 2023 English
Global Stocktake Effective and sustainable transboundary water cooperation helps to address climate change more effectively by analyzing transboundary risks, reducing uncertainties through exchange of data, enlarging the planning space, developing …
is especially valuable for shared wetlands and deltas, which require coordinated management. In several …
World Bank Group · 15 November 2023 English
inshore areas (coral reefs, beaches, coastal forests, deltas, and mangroves areas), offshore areas and fisheries …
CDRI: Cambodia Development Resource Institute · 15 November 2023 English
The report illuminates the political economy of land-water resources in the floodplains around the Tonle Sap Lake which constitutes the upper part of the Mekong River Delta and shares seasonal …
systems of Asian Mega-Deltas for climate and livelihood resilience Asian Mega Deltas, working through the … abbreviations ADB Asian Development Bank AMD Asian Mega Deltas CBET Community-Based Eco-tourism CBOsCFs Community-based … production. It is also very important in the large deltas of South and Southeast Asia. Yet, water is turning … production. This is particularly true in the large deltas of South and Southeast Asia. At the same time, … patterns. 1.1. Project background The Asian Mega Deltas (AMD) programme is one of the new OneCGIAR initiatives …
World Bank Group · 8 November 2023 English
School building projects in Iraq have been and continue to suffer from a significant shortfall in numbers in comparison to an increase in the numbers of students and the inequitable …
temperature prevail along the Tigris and Euphrates deltas during the summer. Studies have indicated declining … and low marshlands in the Tigris and Euphrates deltas where the two rivers flow into the Persian Gulf …
CANSA: Climate Action Network South Asia · 7 November 2023
The objective of this policy paper is to identify Climate Resilient Urban Development in Bangladesh 05 Policy Gaps and Recommendations the gaps and implementation challenges of the relevant plans and …
Bank in Bangladesh 2023). It is one of the largest deltas in the world. The country consists mostly of low-lying …
Climate Council · 7 November 2023 English
Ocean scientists sound the alarm While the impacts of climate change To gain a deeper understanding of the on our planet’s ocean are tremendous, situation, the Climate Council ran a …
of the global climate system, the lifeblood of deltas to the highest mountain our economies, and a source …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 3 November 2023 English
The historical returns on equity index options are well known to be strikingly negative. That is typically explained either by investors having convex marginal utility over stock returns (e.g. crash/variance …
t with conditional volatility — the movement of deltas with volatility is second-order (and its sign is … do not. 4.7 Robustness The baseline results use deltas from the method of Hull and White (2017). The left …
Mine Action Review · 3 November 2023 English
NATIONAL OWNERSHIP AND PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT VNMAC was established in 2014 by Prime Ministerial decree Vietnam’s mine action programme continues to undergo to strengthen the direction of mine action and provide …
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, and Quang Ngai.2 Mine river deltas were extensively mined during the armed conflict …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 3 November 2023 English
The demarcation of these borders in the post-Partition period not only disconnected the entire spectrum of infrastructure but also dislocated huge communities.”1 While the BBIN or the eastern fringe of …
source in the mountain glaciers to the mouth in the deltas. This interdependence adds value to the BBIN prosperity …
CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 2 November 2023 English
CSEP Working Paper-59 October 2023 VIABILITY OF JHARKHAND’S ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION: DISTORTED BY LEGACY AND CONSUMER PROFILES NIKHIL TYAGI AND RAHUL TONGIA Copyright © Nikhil Tyagi and Rahul Tongia Centre for …
ex-post ACoS-ARR gap change per unit due to changes (deltas) in components in Rs/kWh (FY19) . . . . . . . … ex-post ACoS-ARR gap change per unit due to changes (deltas) in components in Rs/kWh (FY19) 2.5 2.0 0.15 -0 …
