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Mitigating Climate Change through Restoration and Management of Coastal Wetlands and Near-shore Marine Ecosystems : Challenges and Opportunities

There is overwhelming consensus amongst climate scientists that the Earth's warming in recent decades has been caused primarily by human activities that have increased the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. To mitigate the mo...

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Main Authors:	Crooks, Stephen, Herr, Dorothée, Tamelander, Jerker, Laffoley, Dan, Vandever, Justin
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACID AFFORESTATION AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURE AIR AIR POLLUTION AMMONIA ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS ANNUAL LOSS ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS ATMOSPHERE BACTERIA BAY BEACH BIODIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BIOMASS BIRDS BRACKISH MARSHES BRACKISH WETLANDS BURIED SEDIMENTS CARBON ACCOUNTING CARBON ACCUMULATION CARBON BALANCE CARBON BUDGET CARBON CONTENT CARBON CYCLE CARBON DIOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS CARBON EMISSIONS CARBON FLOWS CARBON IN SOILS CARBON LOSS CARBON LOSSES CARBON MARKETS CARBON OFFSET CARBON POOL CARBON POOLS CARBON PRICES CARBON RELEASE CARBON SEQUESTRATION CARBON SEQUESTRATION CAPACITY CARBON SINKS CARBON STOCK CARBON STOCKS CARBON STORAGE CARBON STORES CASE STUDIES CH4 CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION CO CO2 CO2 FLUX COAST COASTAL AREAS COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS COASTAL LOWLANDS COASTAL WETLAND SYSTEMS COASTAL WETLANDS COASTS COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CONSERVATION CONTINENTAL SHELF CORAL REEFS CROPLAND CURRENTS DATA COLLECTION DEGRADED AREAS DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS DEGRADING WATER QUALITY DENITRIFICATION DIVERGENCE DRAINAGE DREDGING DRY WEIGHT ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEM CARBON ECOSYSTEMS EMISSION EMISSION ESTIMATES EMISSION REDUCTION EMISSION REDUCTION OBLIGATIONS EMISSIONS EMISSIONS ESTIMATES EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION EMISSIONS FROM SOURCES EMISSIONS INVENTORIES EMISSIONS REDUCTION EROSION ESTIMATES OF EMISSIONS ESTUARIES ESTUARINE ESTUARINE WATERS EUTROPHICATION FISH FISHERIES FLOOD CONTROL FLOODING FOOD PRODUCTION FOREST FOREST AREA FOREST CARBON FOREST CARBON STOCK FOREST CARBON STOCKS FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST RESTORATION FOREST SECTOR FOREST TYPES FORESTED WETLANDS FORESTRY FORESTRY ACTIVITIES FORESTS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE FRESHWATER FRESHWATER SYSTEMS FRESHWATER WETLANDS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GHG GHGS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE GRASSLANDS GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GAS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORIES GREENHOUSE GASES HABITAT TYPES HABITATS HEAVY METALS HOUSING HUMAN ACTIVITIES HYDROLOGY INTERTIDAL WETLANDS IPCC IRON LAND SUBSIDENCE LAND USE LAND USE CHANGE LAND USES LANDFILL LOW-CARBON MANAGED FORESTS MANAGED WETLANDS MANGROVE FOREST MANGROVE FORESTS MANGROVES MARINE ENVIRONMENTS MARSH MEADOWS METHANE METHANE EMISSIONS METHANE PRODUCTION MITIGATION MONTREAL PROTOCOL N2O NATIVE SPECIES NATURAL WETLAND NATURAL WETLANDS NITRATE NITRIFICATION NITRITE NITROGEN NITROUS OXIDE NON-NATIVE SPECIES NUTRIENT CYCLING NUTRIENTS OCEANS OIL PALM ORGANIC CARBON ORGANIC MATERIAL ORGANIC MATTER ORGANIC SOILS OXIDATION OXYGEN PARTICULATE PEAT PEAT SOILS PLANTATIONS POLLUTANTS PRESERVATION QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS RANGES RESERVOIRS RESTORATION RESTORATION ACTIVITIES RESTORATION PROJECTS RESTORATION ACTIONS RIVER RUNOFF SALINITY SALT MARSH SALT MARSH VEGETATION SALT MARSHES SATELLITE IMAGES SATURATED SOIL SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS SATURATED SOILS SEA LEVEL RISE SEA WATER SEAGRASS BEDS SEAGRASS HABITATS SEAGRASSES SEDIMENT SEDIMENTS SHORE SHORELINES SINK SOIL CARBON SPECIES SULPHATE SULPHURIC ACID SURFACE CARBON SUSPENDED SEDIMENT SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS SWAMPS TERM RESTORATION TIDAL FLATS TIDAL MARSH TIDAL MARSHES TIDAL WETLAND TIDAL WETLANDS UNEP VEGETATION WATER TABLE WETLAND WETLAND CONVERSION WETLAND CREATION WETLAND DISTRIBUTION WETLAND DRAINAGE WETLAND LOSS WETLAND MANAGEMENT WETLAND MANAGERS WETLAND RESTORATION WETLAND SOIL WETLAND SOILS WETLAND TYPES WETLANDS LOSS WETLANDS MANAGEMENT WETLANDS RESTORATION WILDLIFE WIND
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/03/14020778/mitigating-climate-change-through-restoration-management-coastal-wetlands-near-shore-marine-ecosystems-challenges-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18318