The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection

By Robert Costanza, O. Pérez-Maqueo, M. L. Martínez, Paul C. Sutton, Sharolyn Anderson, K. Mulder, R. Gordon, Lulie Gund. Ambio, 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology

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Review of the literature on the links between biodiversity and climate change: impacts, adaptation and mitigation. (2009, background): “Recent research has suggested that natural systems can actually be more effective at protecting coasts from erosion and flooding than hard defence structures (Costanza et al. 2008; Hanak and Moreno 2008), although this will not be the case in all situations, and modelling of societal responses to se”
Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change (2013, background): “2 billion/ year in storm protection services [50].”
Valuing Ecosystem Services for Coastal Wetland Protection and Restor ation : Progress and Challenges (2013, background): “Despite this interest in the protection provided by coastal wetlands, there have been few economic valuations of the storm protection service of coastlines dominated by temperate marshes [33,34].”
Progress and Challenges in Valuing Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services (2012, methodology): “hurricanes since 1980 found that coastal wetlands explained 60 percent of the variation in relative damages inflicted on coastal communities (Costanza et al. 2008).”
Mapping ecosystem services' values: current practice and future prospects. (2013, background): “(Costanza et al. 2008) map wetland values for storm protection.”
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments (2011, background): “…intrinsic values for issues such as cultural and social norms, democratic freedoms, etc. (see, for example, Hargrove, 1992; Sen, 1999; Turner and Daily, 2008), from an economic perspective much of the so called ‘intrinsic’ values of ecosystem services would instead be reclassified as non-use…”
Changes in the global value of ecosystem services (2014, positive): “For example, estimating the storm protection value of coastal wetlands requires information on historical damage, storm tracks and probability, wetland area and location, built infrastructure location, population distribution, etc. (Costanza et al., 2008).”
An initial estimate of the value of ecosystem services in Bhutan (2013, background): “These models can be presented in multiple forms, including statistical (Costanza et al., 2008) and as dynamic systems simulations (Boumans et al.”
Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios (2015, neutral): “2 billion year in storm protection services (107).”
A review of methods, data, and models to assess changes in the value of ecosystem services from land degradation and restoration (2016, methodology): “The models have been selected to represent tested and widely used models that could serve as a toolbox for researchers that look into sustainable land management studies, and we stress this is not a comprehensive sample, as there are simply too many models to include in this paper.”
Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units (2012, background): “For example, it has been shown that sustainable use of forests or wetlands is usually economically more beneficial than conversion to alternative land uses if all, or most services are taken into account (e.g. Balmford et al., 2002; van Beukering et al., 2003; Barbier, 2007; Costanza et al., 2008; H”
The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services (2011, background): “This storm protection value can be substantial, as a study of the protection against hurricanes by coastal wetlands along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts reveals (Table 3; Costanza et al. 2008).”
Achieving the national development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment in ecological infrastructure: A case study of South Africa (2017, background): “Furthermore, in storm prone areas of the world, wetlands are extremely important for reducing the effects of storm surges and attenuate waves thus protecting costa areas from damage (Costanza et al., 2008; Barbier et al., 2013).”