Climate change-driven losses in ecosystem services of coastal wetlands: A case study in the West coast of Bangladesh

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 169, Issue , 2019, Pages 273-283

  Mehvar, Seyedabdolhossein ^a,b   Filatova, Tatiana ^a,c   Sarker, Motaleb Hossain ^d   Dastgheib, Ali ^b   Ranasinghe, Roshanka ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)   (Bangladesh)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Economic valuation; Sea level rise; Sundarbans; Wetland ecosystems

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; WETLANDS;

AQUACULTURE PONDS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ECONOMIC VALUATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SUNDARBANS; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL WETLAND; CYCLONE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; MANGROVE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VALUATION;

BANGLADESH; SUNDARBANS;

EID: 85059481644     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.12.009     Document Type: Article

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