London, United Kingdom
06 Nov 2014
Country:
Asia Region,
Bangladesh,
Cambodia,
Global,
India,
Indonesia,
Maldives,
Myanmar,
Pakistan,
Seychelles,
Sri Lanka,
Thailand,
Viet Nam
Topic:
Climate change,
Coastal Governance,
Community Resilence
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A new guidebook on mangroves as a coastal defence finds that mangroves can reduce risk from a large number of coastal hazards. The role of mangroves in coastal defence has been widely promoted since the tsunami that struck South-East Asia in 2004. Ye...