Turning the tide: how blue carbon and payments for ecosystem services (PES) might help save mangrove forests.

ABSTRACT: In this review paper, we aim to describe the potential for, and the key challenges to, applying PES projects to mangroves. By adopting a "carbocentric approach," we show that mangrove forests are strong candidates for PES projects. They are particularly well suited to the generation of carbon credits because of their unrivaled potential as carbon sinks, their resistance and resilience to natural hazards, and their extensive provision of Ecosystem Services other than carbon sequestration, primarily nursery areas for fish, water purification and coastal protection, to the benefit of local communities as well as to the global population. The voluntary carbon market provides opportunities for the development of appropriate protocols and good practice case studies for mangroves at a small scale

SUBMITTER: Locatelli T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4235902 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature