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In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
… 28 Improved resilience and adaptive … and so their buffering capacity is a balance between their resilience and their vulnerability. The current consensus is … reefs and mangroves by the 2004 tsunami demonstrated the resilience of these ecosystems to natural disturbance, but …
The importance of adaptation and disaster risk reduction in coastal areas
… ecosystems offer multiple additional services that support resilience of human communities. Examples of such services … seagrasses) that help reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to climate change impacts; g. undertake …
Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure
… stock of coastal natural resources, and impacted on the resilience of ecosystems and their ability to provide goods … consump- tion, reducing vulnerability, and strengthening resilience. Just as most valuation efforts have covered only …
Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management
… ecosystem approach. Rationale: Ecosystem functioning and resilience depends on a dynamic relationship within species, … is required, especially to understand: (i) ecosystem resilience and the effects of biodiversity loss (species and …