Communities and blue carbon: the role of traditional management systems in providing benefits for carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

Climatic Change

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 89-100

  Vierros, Marjo ^a  

^a UNU TKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STORAGE (MATERIALS); STORAGE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SHORELINE PROTECTION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT; VEGETATED ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LIVELIHOOD; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 85008319315     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0920-3     Document Type: Article

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