1. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London ESPA Deltas: ASSESSING HEALTH, LIVELIHOODS, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN POPULOUS DELTAS: OBJECTIVES AND PROGRESS Prof. Robert J. Nicholls University of Southampton www.espadelta.net

2. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London ESPA Delta: Overall Aim To provide policy makers with the knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate the effects of policy decisions on ecosystem services and people's livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh

3. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London Main Study Site

4. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London The Delta

5. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London ESPA Delta: Project Aims To understand the present relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being and health. To predict how these ecosystem services might evolve over the coming years and decades (up to 50 -100 years) [Timeframe of the Bangladesh Delta Plan] To analyse how policy can influence these outcomes and promote ecosystem services and human well-being and health. To select robust policies that are effective across the range of uncertainty. Using participatory approaches.

6. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London Project Structure

7. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London Participatory Aspects Stakeholder mapping Identifying stakeholder issues (and questions) Defining credible scenarios of the future Interpreting future simulations/proposing policy interventions (iterative process) Project legacy

8. Workshop: Policy & Science: Who defines the problem? Charles Darwin House, Central London ESPA Deltas: ASSESSING HEALTH, LIVELIHOODS, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN POPULOUS DELTAS: OBJECTIVES AND PROGRESS Prof. Robert J. Nicholls University of Southampton www.espadelta.net