A Blue Carbon Primer: The State of Coastal Westland Carbon Science, Practice and Policy

ISBN-10: 1498769098
ISBN-13: 9781498769099
Pages: 480
Language: English
Published: 2018-09-15
Publisher: CRC Press
Authors: Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Stephen Crooks, Tiffany G. Troxler

Description

Blue Carbon has emerged as a term that represents the distinctive carbon stocks and fluxes into or out of coastal wetlands such as marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses. The Blue Carbon concept has rapidly developed in science literature and is highly relevant politically, as nations and markets are developing blue carbon monitoring and management tools and policies. This book is a compendium of the state of the science, the state of maps and mapping protocols, and the state of policy incentives (including economic valuation of blue carbon), with additional sections on operationalizing blue carbon projects and case studies with global relevance.