Delta research

Wageningen University and Research Centre offers a wide range of expertise when it comes to deltas areas where we live, work and recreate in a sustainable manner.
Our activities encompass research, advice, education and capacity building. We do research on physical, chemical and ecological processes in the environment, for example on water, nature, forests, environment, soil, landscape and climate.
We investigate how nature can be exploited in a sustainable manner to improve the quality of life. We have large socio-economic research groups conducting research on themes ranging from lifestyles and livelihoods to economics and governance. Wageningen UR has a profound capacity to blend its disciplinary strengths in transdisciplinary and problem-centered approaches in the search for sustainable environmental practices, policies and management. Depending on the situation we work at local, national or international scale. The effects of climate change on deltas worldwide are a particular focus of our attention.

The Wageningen institutes that specialise in this subject are Alterra and Wageningen IMARES. Alterra is the research institute for our green living environment. Alterra
offers a combination of practical and scientific research in a multitude of disciplines related to the green world around us and the sustainable use of our living environment.
Wageningen IMARES, Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, is a leading, independent research institute that concentrates on research into strategic and applied marine ecology. In addition to Alterra and IMARES, research of significance for water and deltas is conducted by various other institutes within Wageningen UR, e.g. socio-economic research (LEI), aquaculture (Animal Science Group), agriculture (PRI) and environmental technology (Agrotechnology and Food Science Group).

In this booklet you will find an outline of the work we do on water, climate change and deltas. It is a concise overview of the research, education and capacity building of Wageningen UR that is relevant for deltas, presented in the form of short summaries of projects.

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