TDA-IME Project Final Report June, 2013 91 TABLE 20: Ten Strategies Managers Can Apply to Promote Resilience. No. ACTION 1 Apply risk-spreading strategies to address the uncertainties of climate change. 2 Identify and protect critical areas that are naturally positioned to survive climate change. 3 Manage human stresses on mangroves. 4 Establish greenbelts and buffer zones to allow for mangrove migration in response to sea-level rise, and to reduce impacts from adjacent land-use practices. 5 Restore degraded areas that have demonstrated resistance or resilience to climate change. 6 Understand and preserve connectivity between mangroves and sources of freshwater and sediment, and between mangroves and their associated habitats like coral reefs and sea grasses. 7 Establish baseline data and monitor the response of mangroves to climate change. 8 Implement adaptive strategies to compensate for changes in species ranges and environmental conditions. 9 Develop alternative livelihoods for mangrove-dependent communities as a means to reduce mangrove destruction. 10 Build partnerships with a variety of stakeholders to generate the necessary finances and support to respond to the impacts of climate From: McLeod and Salam (2006). Conclusions The threats posed by climate change, which compound the other major threats to mangroves not attributable to climate change, require a proactive integrated and coordinated approach across a range of spatial scales. In particular, issues of mangrove ecosystem connectivity, plant and animal dispersal abilities, effective population size and genetic diversity need to be considered at a scale greater than that of particular mangrove habitats (see details in Section 2). The resilience-promoting strategies listed in Tables 19 and 20, covering mangrove diversity, connectivity and adaptive capacity, plus some socio-economic considerations, are not only relevant to the impact of climate change on mangroves. Essentially, they are also good practices in sustainable natural resources management in general; and most are, to varying degrees, already implemented in some mangrove management systems around the world. Transboundary cooperation on mangrove management, including the sharing of good practices, is fundamental to addressing both sustainable management and climate change-related issues. The need in Indochina is to have these good practices endorsed at national policy level and then applied in practice on a transboundary scale.
Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of Indochina Mangrove Ecosystems
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