Anthropogenic, direct pressures on coastal wetlands

• Main Author: Newton, Alice
• Publication Date: 2020
• Other Authors: Icely, John, Cristina, Sónia, Perillo, Gerardo M. E., Turner, R. Eugene, Ashan, Dewan, Cragg, Simon, Luo, Yongming, Tu, Chen, Li, Yuan, Zhang, Haibo, Ramesh, Ramachandran, Forbes, Donald L., Solidoro, Cosimo, Béjaoui, Béchir, Gao, Shu, Pastres, Roberto, Kelsey, Heath, Taillie, Dylan, Nhan, Nguyen, Brito, Ana C., de Lima, Ricardo, Kuenzer, Claudia
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14089
• topic: Coastal wetland; Salt marsh; Mangrove; Seagrass; Pressure; State and impact on human welfare; Sustainability; Climate change

Coastal wetlands, such as saltmarshes and mangroves that fringe transitional waters, deliver important ecosystem services that support human development. Coastal wetlands are complex social-ecological systems that occur at all latitudes, from polar regions to the tropics. This overview covers wetlands in five continents. The wetlands are of varying size, catchment size, human population and stages of economic development. Economic sectors and activities in and around the coastal wetlands and their catchments exert multiple, direct pressures.