Natural resource management in mitigating climate impacts: the example of mangrove restoration in Vietnam
Nguyen Hoang Tri; Adger, W.N.; Kelly, P.M.
Global Environmental Change 8(1): 49-61
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0959-3780 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-3780(97)00023-xDocument Number: 198933
A management strategy, based on the rehabilitation of the mangrove ecosystem, is presented which may improve the livelihood of local resource users as well as enhancing sea defences. The strategy, therefore, represents a precautionary approach to climate impact mitigation. This paper quantifies the economic benefits of mangrove rehabilitation undertaken, inter alia, to enhance sea defence systems in three coastal Districts of northern Vietnam. The results of the analysis show that mangrove rehabilitation can be desirable from an economic perspective based solely on the direct use benefits by local communities. Such activities have even higher benefit-cost ratios with the inclusion of the indirect benefits resulting from the avoided maintenance cost for the sea dike system which the mangrove stands protect from coastal storm surges.
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