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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… Ecosystem Management Series No. 9 Ecosystem-based adaptation … Decision Support to Meet Management Objectives for Coastal Conservation and Hazard Mitigation on Long Island, … especially in the case of ‘hard defenses built to prevent coastal and inland flooding’ (Campbell et al., 2009). This …
World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 2: Five wetlands that help us cope with extreme weather events
… tolerant shrubs and trees that grow in shallow, tropical coastal waters. Their roots bind the shoreline and each … hurricanes and tsunamis. Every hectare of mangrove and coastal marsh is worth up to $US15,161 a year in … change. Yangtze River: ‘soft’ flood control with a wetland ecosystem Prone to monsoon flooding, the Yangtze River basin …