Taking stock of mangrove and seagrass blue carbon ecosystems: A perspective for future carbon trading
Date
2017
Authors
John Barry Gallagher
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Publisher
UMS
Abstract
Seagrass and mangroves support a number of ecosystem services, such as sustaining marine fisheries, water clarity, and the protection of shoreline from erosion. Producing a national and global consensus of their total worth is a challenge. More often than not the variety and distal evaluation approaches do not fit comfortably within current market-based economic models, which are arguably more capable of swaying government policy in assessing their preservation over economic development. The exception to this rule is the increasing recognition of the importance of these systems as a carbon sink for combating "greenhouse" gas emissions. In response, these sinks have been labelled as 'Blue Carbon, a rhetorical tool to distinguish them from terrestrial and ocean sinks, and the different approaches they would require for conservation.
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Keywords
Blue carbon, Carbon sequestration, Mangrove, Seagrass, Carbon financing
Citation
Gallagher, J. B. (2017). Taking stock of mangrove and seagrass blue carbon ecosystems: A perspective for future carbon trading. Borneo Journal of Marine Science and Aquaculture (BJoMSA), 1.