Delta sustainability from the Holocene to the Anthropocene and envisioning the future
Edward Anthony
(1)
,
Jaia Syvitski
(2)
,
Florin Zăinescu
(1)
,
Robert Nicholls
(3)
,
Kim Cohen
(4)
,
Nick Marriner
(5)
,
Yoshiki Saito
(6)
,
John Day
(7)
,
Philip Minderhoud
(8, 9)
,
Alessandro Amorosi
(10)
,
Zhongyuan Chen
(11)
,
Christophe Morhange
(1)
,
Toru Tamura
(12)
,
Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe
(13)
,
Manon Besset
(14)
,
François Sabatier
(1)
,
David Kaniewski
(15)
,
Vittorio Maselli
(16)
1
CEREGE -
Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement
2 University of Colorado [Boulder]
3 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
4 Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht]
5 ThéMA - Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049)
6 Shimane University of Matsue
7 Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University
8 Soil Geography and Landscape Group
9 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
10 Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences [Bologna]
11 ECNU - East China Normal University [Shangaï]
12 GSJ - Geological Survey of Japan
13 UniBuc - University of Bucharest
14 Bordeaux Technowest
15 CRBE - Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement
16 Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences [Modena]
2 University of Colorado [Boulder]
3 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
4 Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht]
5 ThéMA - Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049)
6 Shimane University of Matsue
7 Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University
8 Soil Geography and Landscape Group
9 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
10 Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences [Bologna]
11 ECNU - East China Normal University [Shangaï]
12 GSJ - Geological Survey of Japan
13 UniBuc - University of Bucharest
14 Bordeaux Technowest
15 CRBE - Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement
16 Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences [Modena]
Edward Anthony
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Florin Zăinescu
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Robert Nicholls
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Kim Cohen
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Nick Marriner
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Yoshiki Saito
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Philip Minderhoud
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Alessandro Amorosi
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Zhongyuan Chen
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Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe
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François Sabatier
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David Kaniewski
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Résumé
River deltas offer numerous ecosystem services and host an estimated global population of 350 million to more than 500 million inhabitants in over 100 countries. To maintain their sustainability into the future, deltas need to withstand sea-level rise from global warming, but human pressures and diminishing sediment supplies are exacerbating their vulnerability. In this Review, we show how deltas have served as environmental incubators for societal development over the past 7,000 years, and how this tightly interlocked relationship now poses challenges to deltas globally. Without climate stabilization, the sustainability of populous low-to-mid-latitude deltas will be difficult to maintain, probably terminating the delta–human relationship that we know today.