Mangrove restoration and coastal flood adaptation: A global perspective on the potential for hybrid coastal defenses.

ABSTRACT: To reduce current and future coastal flood risk, it is critical to better understand how adaptation measures, including nature-based solutions, can reduce that risk. Globally, hybrid coastal defenses, including a combination of coastal vegetation, such as salt marshes and mangroves, with a dike or sea wall, have been highlighted as a promising adaptation measure. Here, we present a global-scale assessment of the potential risk reduction from mangrove restoration in combination with foreshore dike systems under scenarios of climate and socioeconomic change. We provide a quantitative assessment of the benefits in terms of reduced economic damage, exposed population, and poverty exposure. We evaluate mangrove restoration fronting dikes by accounting for wave-vegetation interaction. If mangrov

SUBMITTER: Tiggeloven T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12846779 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature