Delta Vulnerability Linked to Climate and Environmental Changes: Metropolization Challenges in Asian and Nile Deltas

Deltas are low-lying social, political and environmental systems (SPES) characterized by the interplay between rivers, land and oceans and influenced by a combination of riverine and oceanic processes. They are shaped by human intervention in the form of strong water control management policies implemented by the state (Biggs et al. 2009; Fanchette 2006). The political dimension of SPES is central to understanding their dynamics and the settlement of a dense population in a vulnerable environ..