Conservation of Wetlands and Other Coastal Ecosystems: a Commentary on their Value to Protect Biodiversity, Reduce Disaster Impacts, and Promote Human Health and Well-Being

Sutton‐Grier, Ariana E.; Sandifer, Paul A.

doi:10.1007/s13157-018-1039-0

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“…The use of more natural infrastructure instead of, or in combination with built or “grey” infrastructure to provide coastal protection from hurricanes, other extreme weather events, and sea level rise is rapidly becoming accepted by coastal managers and others (124, 125). This green + gray strategy is based on extensive scientific evidence that demonstrates the significant roles that intact natural coastal features such as wetlands, dunes, and islands, can play in storm wave attenuation, erosion reduction or prevention, shoreline stabilization, flood defense, and other protective characteristics (126–137), conservation of biodiversity (138), and perhaps also in protecting in human health (139). The economic values of these nature-based defensive mechanisms can be substantial.…”

Section: Recommendations To Increase Resiliency To Disasters By Reducmentioning

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“…(6) Utilize nature-based treatment and nature-exposure to the greatest extent practical to alleviate pre- and post-disaster stress effects such as anxiety, depression, and loss of cultural and place identity. It is widely recognized that people derive a broad range of psychological and physiological health benefits from experiencing more natural, “green,” and biodiverse areas, including those near water bodies and coasts (11, 139, 153–159). These health-enhancing effects are key ecosystem services provided by nature (160).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These health-enhancing effects are key ecosystem services provided by nature (160). However, environmental disasters may reduce or degrade these ecosystem services with concomitant increases in acute, chronic, and cumulative stress in humans and associated negative health outcomes (11, 139, 161).…”

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Enhancing Disaster Resilience by Reducing Stress-Associated Health Impacts

Sandifer

Walker²

2018

Front. Public Health

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Disasters are a recurring fact of life, and major incidents can have both immediate and long-lasting negative effects on the health and well-being of people, communities, and economies. A primary goal of many disaster preparedness, response, and recovery plans is to reduce the likelihood and severity of disaster impacts through increased resilience of individuals and communities. Unfortunately, most plans do not address directly major drivers of long-term disaster impacts on humans—that is, acute, chronic, and cumulative stress—and therefore do less to enhance resilience than they could. Stress has been shown to lead to or exacerbate ailments ranging from mental illness, domestic violence, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorders, and suicide to cardiovascular disease, respiratory problems, and other infirmities. Individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and social ties are all vulnerable to stress. Based on a targeted review of what we considered to be key literature about disasters, resilience, and disaster-associated stress effects, we recommend eight actions to improve resiliency through inclusion of stress alleviation in disaster planning: (1) Improve existing disaster behavioral and physical health programs to better address, leverage, and coordinate resources for stress reduction, relief, and treatment in disaster planning and response. (2) Emphasize pre- and post-disaster collection of relevant biomarker and other health-related data to provide a baseline of health status against which disaster impacts could be assessed, and continued monitoring of these indicators to evaluate recovery. (3) Enhance capacity of science and public health early-responders. (4) Use natural infrastructure to minimize disaster damage. (5) Expand the geography of disaster response and relief to better incorporate the displacement of affected people. (6) Utilize nature-based treatment to alleviate pre- and post-disaster stress effects on health. (7) Review disaster laws, policies, and regulations to identify opportunities to strengthen public health preparedness and responses including for stress-related impacts, better engage affected communities, and enhance provision of health services. (8) With community participation, develop and institute equitable processes pre-disaster for dealing with damage assessments, litigation, payments, and housing.

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Section: Recommendations To Increase Resiliency To Disasters By Reducmentioning

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Section: Recommendations To Increase Resiliency To Disasters By Reducmentioning

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Enhancing Disaster Resilience by Reducing Stress-Associated Health Impacts

Sandifer

Walker²

2018

Front. Public Health

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“…The ecosystem service of carbon sequestration and storage, linked to the provision of an equitable climate, is research subject in full progress. In this context, the carbon storage potential of coastal habitats plays an important role in regulating local and global climate [1][2]. However, in recent years coastal habitats are under threat and are deteriorating all over the world.…”

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The value of carbon sequestration and storage in coastal habitats areas in North West of Morocco

Kacem

Maanan

Rhinane³

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Morocco, like the rest of the world, is experiencing a climate change that threatens a number of wetlands. Marine ecosystems contribute to the regulation of the Earth’s climate, but their degradation releases large quantities of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. This paper aimed to map and model changes in carbon storage and sequestration for coastal habitats using the INVEST model, using the Sidi Moussa-Oualidia lagoon complex as a case study. To achieve this objective, several data were used, namely, land use and land cover maps between 2003 and 2020, as well as data on the amount of carbon stored in the three basins; biomass, sediment carbon (soil) and dead carbon (litter), and the annual rate of carbon accumulation in biomass and sediment. The results obtained in this work allowed us to compare the two former and current carbon stock and net sequestration scenarios and to evaluate the social cost of carbon in the study area. This study can facilitate the development of a coastal rehabilitation strategy to take advantage of the benefits of these wetlands and, at the same time, to conserve the ecosystem services provided by these environments, including the CBCS.

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“…According to Brito et al [15] and Marimon et al [13], Ipucas occur in tension zones in the transition between the Cerrado and the Amazon forest, which makes them regions of extreme biological importance. Scientists have stated that flooded ecosystems are economically more valuable in their natural state than if drained or modified for other uses, over time [26,27]. However, the advancement of the agricultural frontier in this region has incorporated areas adjacent to Ipucas into agricultural or pastoral systems, often exceeding the protection limits established by law, the goal of which is to aid in the conservation of soil and water resources [28].…”

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Spatial Variability of the Physicochemical Properties of Soils from Seasonally Flooded Forest Fragments on a Tropical Plain

Barbosa

Fernandes

Siqueira

et al. 2019

Applied and Environmental Soil Science

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Flooded ecosystems are conditioned to seasonal floods that promote specific soil conditions, such as low oxygen, hydromorphism, and peculiar chemical reactions. These environments are dependent on flood pulses that determine specific ecological conditions. Ipucas are seasonally flooded discontinuous forest patches that occur exclusively in the Araguaia Plain in Central Brazil. They are located 0.40 to 1.20 m lower than the surrounding plain, which promotes an accumulation of rainwater for five to six months of the year, being entirely or partially dry during the dry season. The aim of this study was to evaluate the horizontal (centre and edge) and vertical (depths: 0–0.20 m and 0.20–0.40 m) variability of physicochemical parameters in Ipucas soils, attempting to establish the importance of flood pulses and the leaching of surrounding areas in soil formation and composition. Samples were collected during the dry season in three Ipucas of similar size and circularity using a Dutch auger. The results reveal that flood pulses promote the deposition of sediments eroded from the surrounding plain, homogenizing the characteristics of the surface soil, from the edge to the centre of the Ipucas. However, biogeochemical processes, also linked to temporary flooding, account for the differences between the surface and deeper soil horizons because anoxic conditions during flooding promote chemical reactions characteristic of anaerobic environments, modifying the pH and organic matter content, in addition to the gleying of soils subjected to flooding, which are then covered by sediments after the dry season. Finally, Ipucas soils are susceptible to anthropic changes and are dependent on seasonal flood pulses.

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Conservation of Wetlands and Other Coastal Ecosystems: a Commentary on their Value to Protect Biodiversity, Reduce Disaster Impacts, and Promote Human Health and Well-Being

Cited by 65 publications

References 66 publications

Enhancing Disaster Resilience by Reducing Stress-Associated Health Impacts

Enhancing Disaster Resilience by Reducing Stress-Associated Health Impacts

The value of carbon sequestration and storage in coastal habitats areas in North West of Morocco

Spatial Variability of the Physicochemical Properties of Soils from Seasonally Flooded Forest Fragments on a Tropical Plain

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