| dc.contributor.author | United Nations Environment Programme | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Global | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-11T20:03:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-11T20:03:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-82-7701-100-4 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/8124 | |
| dc.description | Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian Peninsula. These benefits include ecosystem services such as a rich cultural heritage | |
| dc.description | the protection of shorelines from storms | |
| dc.description | erosion or sea-level rise | |
| dc.description | food from fisheries | |
| dc.description | maintenance of water quality | |
| dc.description | and landscape beauty for recreation and ecotourism. In a Blue Carbon context these ecosystems also store and sequester potentially vast amounts of carbon in sediments and biomass. | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | UNEP | |
| dc.relation | 220 | |
| dc.rights | Public | en_US |
| dc.subject | blue carbon | |
| dc.subject | coastal | |
| dc.subject | mangroves | |
| dc.subject | ecosystem | |
| dc.subject | sustainability | |
| dc.subject | water | |
| dc.subject | pollution | |
| dc.subject | policy | |
| dc.subject | saltwater | |
| dc.subject | marshland | |
| dc.subject | tourism; | |
| dc.title | Blue carbon: first level exploration of blue carbon in the Arabian Peninsula | |
| dc.type | Reports, Books and Booklets | en_US |
| wd.identifier.sdgio | http://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000037 | |
