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The Global Flood Protection Benefits of Mangroves
Coastal flood risks are rising rapidly. We provide high resolution estimates of the economic value of mangroves forests for flood risk reduction every 20 km worldwide. We develop a probabilistic, process-based valuation of the effects of mangroves on averting damages to people and property. We coupl...
Autores principales: | Menéndez, Pelayo, Losada, Iñigo J., Torres-Ortega, Saul, Narayan, Siddharth, Beck, Michael W. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7064529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32157114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61136-6 |
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