Water-Food-Biodiversity Nexus in Global Changing Deltas at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视
Future Deltas organised and hosted an International Symposium and hackathon at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 on the Water-Food-Biodiversity Nexus in Global Changing Deltas, which took place on July 17th and 18th 2017. The activities started the week prior, by hosting a discussion panel 鈥楶racticing the Commons in Deltas鈥 at the , where participants tinkered with how to study common-pool resources in delta systems.
The symposium presentations by Frank van Laerhoven, Stefan Dekker, Martin Wassen, , Maria J. Santos, Obbe Tuinenburg, and examined 50 deltas and included socio-economic, ecological, geomorphological, hydrological, agricultural and governance perspectives. Online attendants were and .
A main theme that was discussed during the hackathon was how certain events called focal events serve as external shocks, that trigger changes in social systems and in ecological systems. We also discussed the lack of studies on how the social system responds to shocks in delta systems and how these can then be coupled with the studies on ecological and geomorphological studies. We decided to focus on the time and place specificities of delta systems, and the problems that the governance system is trying to resolve.
The Delta nexus team also tackled the research question 鈥淗ow vulnerable is the sustainable provisioning of delta ecosystem services to the institutional setting鈥, and we drafted a paper outline to be completed by the workshop participants. The two-days creative environment provided a great venue to learn, promote dialogue, develop a structured method to explore risks and opportunities for ecosystem service supply in deltas, globally.