A brief history of collaborative research on continental shelves and coastal zones in Asia

Abstract

Both the amount of research and the spread of research disciplines investigating river deltas have increased greatly in recent years. In particular, use of the term “mega-delta” in research papers has become more common since the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC was published in 2007. This article provides a brief history of collaborative research and continental shelves and deltas in Asia since the 1990s, most of which has been led by the Geological Survey of Japan, IGCP-475 DeltaMAP and APN mega-delta projects.