2021
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00706-6
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The value of US coral reefs for flood risk reduction

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“…They showed that in reduction of these benefits, reef degradation is greater than sea level rise. Valuating the risk reduction benefits that reefs provide allows these services to be integrated into policies and management plans, and this has been done in Mexico (Reguero et al, 2019), United States (Reguero et al, 2021), and many places all around the world (Beck et al, 2019). Research also suggests that the costs of conservation and repair of reefs is significantly cheaper than the costs involved in constructing breakwaters (Ferrario et al, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They showed that in reduction of these benefits, reef degradation is greater than sea level rise. Valuating the risk reduction benefits that reefs provide allows these services to be integrated into policies and management plans, and this has been done in Mexico (Reguero et al, 2019), United States (Reguero et al, 2021), and many places all around the world (Beck et al, 2019). Research also suggests that the costs of conservation and repair of reefs is significantly cheaper than the costs involved in constructing breakwaters (Ferrario et al, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Future losses will be high. The threat from future sea-level rise to coastal cities and low-lying areas around the world, combined with the storms, erosion and inundation, and the rapid degradation of natural coastal systems, will be one of the major societal and infrastructure challenges of this century [18,22,43,[71][72][73]. Threatening levels of sea-level rise, however, are a longer-term issue, at least for now, but require mainstreaming adequate planning and rethinking of how coastal communities plan for new development in coastal areas as well as existing development, manage ecosystems and other coastal resources and prepare action to mitigate the impact of existing hazards, such as El Niño, hurricanes or tsunamis.…”
Section: Responses To the Inevitable And Accelerating Rise In Sea Lev...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, these changes vary between regions and coastlines, from seasonal to interannual and long-term temporal scales, triggering different impacts locally, such as flooding and erosion [3,13,14]. Expected rises in water temperatures and ocean acidification will also impact coastal ecosystems, with important implications for the services they provide, such as fisheries, coastal protection or carbon sequestration [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Collectively, members of the holobiont contribute to the fitness of the coral animal (Rohwer et al, 2002;Mieog et al, 2009;Gordon and Leggat, 2010;Parkinson et al, 2015). Coral reefs provide a variety of important services, including hosting diverse marine ecosystems (Plaisance et al, 2011;Fisher et al, 2015), supplying pharmacophores for drug development (Bruckner, 2002;Sang et al, 2019), protecting shorelines (Reguero et al, 2021), and contributing to coastal economies with an estimated collective worth of $3.4 billion in the US (Brander and Van Beukering, 2013). Factors including increased ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, pollution, and disease outbreaks present continual challenges to the health of corals (Richardson, 1998;Rosenberg and Ben-Haim, 2002;Rogers and Weil, 2010;Pandolfi et al, 2011;Hoegh-Guldberg et al, 2017;Grottoli et al, 2018;Montilla et al, 2019;Howells et al, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%