Opportunities and challenges for mangrove carbon sequestration in the Mekong River Delta in Vietnam

Sustainability Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 661-677

  Warner, Robin ^a   Kaidonis, Mary ^b   Dun, Olivia ^b   Rogers, Kerrylee ^b   Shi, Yubing ^a,c   Nguyen, Thang T X ^b,d   Woodroffe, Colin D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Ministry of Industry and Trade   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Blue carbon; Mangroves; Mekong River delta; Sequestration; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962724761     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0359-3     Document Type: Article

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