Tackling the mangrove restoration challenge

CE Lovelock, E Barbier, CM Duarte - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Mangroves have been converted and degraded for decades. Rates of loss have declined
over the past decades, but achieving resilient coastlines requires both conservation and …

Mangrove health: A review of functions, threats, and challenges associated with mangrove management practices

H Akram, S Hussain, P Mazumdar, KO Chua, TE Butt… - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mangroves stand out as one of the most diverse and biologically significant natural systems
in the world. Playing critical roles in maintaining the health and productivity of coastal …

Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences

VTM van Zelst, JT Dijkstra, BK van Wesenbeeck… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Exposure to coastal flooding is increasing due to growing population and economic activity.
These developments go hand-in-hand with a loss and deterioration of ecosystems …

Nature-based engineering: a review on reducing coastal flood risk with mangroves

R Gijsman, EM Horstman, D van der Wal… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integration of mangroves in projects to reduce coastal flood risk is increasingly being
recognised as a sustainable and cost-effective alternative. In addition to the construction of …

Mangroves as coastal bio-shield: a review of mangroves performance in wave attenuation

EA Kamil, H Takaijudin, AM Hashim - Civil Engineering Journal, 2021 - civilejournal.org
Mangroves have been recognized as soft structures that provide coastline protection. The
capability of dampening waves helps minimize destruction from catastrophic events …

Evaluation of coastal protection strategies and proposing multiple lines of defense under climate change in the Mekong Delta for sustainable shoreline protection

T Le Xuan, HT Ba, VQ Thanh, DP Wright… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coastal protection measures and management play an important role in coping with coastal
disasters and climate-induced sea-level rise. In this study, the success and failure of typical …

Subsidence reveals potential impacts of future sea level rise on inhabited mangrove coasts

CEJ van Bijsterveldt, PMJ Herman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human-induced land subsidence causes many coastal areas to sink centimetres per year,
exacerbating relative sea level rise (RSLR). While cities combat this problem through …

A systematic review of mangrove restoration studies in Southeast Asia: Challenges and opportunities for the United Nation's Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

MEB Gerona-Daga, SG Salmo III - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mangroves provide valuable ecological and socio-economic services. The importance of
mangroves is particularly evident in Southeast (SE) Asia where the most extensive and …

[HTML][HTML] A global synthesis of the effectiveness of sedimentation-enhancing strategies for river deltas and estuaries

JR Cox, M Paauw, JH Nienhuis, FE Dunn… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deltas worldwide are at risk of elevation loss and drowning due to relative sea-level rise.
Management strategies to restore or enhance sedimentation on delta plains, Sedimentation …

Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling

T Pang, X Wang, RA Nawaz, G Keefe, T Adekanmbi - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Coastal erosion is a normal process of nature. However, the rate of coastal erosion, and the
frequency and intensity of coastal flooding events, are now on the rise around the world due …