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Natural barriers to natural disasters: replanting mangroves after the tsunami
- Environmental Science
- 2006
The Indian Ocean tsunami disaster of December 2004 has increased interest in replanting degraded and deforested mangrove areas in Asia to improve coastal protection. Evidence from Thailand suggests…
Damage to Mangrove Forest by 2004 Tsunami at Pakarang Cape and Namkem, Thailand
- Environmental Science
- 2009
We investigated damage to mangroves from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Pakarang Cape and Namkem, Thailand. Visual inspection of remotely sensed images revealed that 12 and 20 ha of mangrove…
Wave Reduction in Mangrove Forests: General Information and Case Study in Thailand
- Environmental Science
- 2015
Establishment of Shoreline Buffer Zone through Rehabilitation of Degraded Coastal Mangroves
- Environmental Science
- 2018
After the 2004 tragic tsunami that struck the western coastlines of Peninsular Malaysia and several Asian countries, which claimed thousands of lives and inflicted substantial damage to properties…
Impacts and Recovery from a Large Tsunami: Coasts of Aceh
- Environmental Science
- 2009
The impacts of the 26 th December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were examined on three separate coastal sectors in the west, north and east of Banda Aceh. The most vulnerable coasts are the soft coasts,…
The effectiveness of breakwaters decreasing the peat shoreline change in Bengkalis Island
- Environmental Science
- 2021
The preserve presence of peatland in Indonesia is not only endangered by direct anthropogenic force (e.g., peat fires, logging, land-use change, and canalisation). In the last three decades, coastal…
Tsunami mitigation effect of mangrove forest in 2009 Samoa earthquake tsunami
- Environmental Science, Geology
- 2010
We investigated tsunami mitigation effect of mangrove forest in 2009 Samoa tsunami using field survey and numerical model. Field surveys revealed that the wetland with 100 m width of mangrove forest…
Coastal resources, livelihoods and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia
- Environmental Science
- 2013
Modeling the mitigation effect of coastal forests on tsunami
- Environmental Science
- 2017
As we have learned from the 26 Dec 2004 mega Andaman tsunami that killed 250, 000 lives worldwide, tsunami is a devastating natural disaster that can cause severe impacts including immense loss of…
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Mangroves as a coastal protection from waves in the Tong King delta, Vietnam
- Biology
- 1997
The usefulness of mangrove reforestation for coastal protection is demonstrated by the effect of wave reduction, which was large even when the water depth increased.
Currents and Sediment Transport in Mangrove Forests
- Environmental Science
- 1997
Abstract A field study of the tidal currents, cohesive sediment dynamics and transport of organic carbon in a highly vegetated mangrove swamp was carried out at Middle Creek, Cairns, Australia. The…
Transport of sediment in mangrove swamps
- Environmental ScienceHydrobiologia
- 2004
The transport of suspended sediment in mangrove swamps is controlled by three dominant processes. First, the transport processes in the estuaries and coastal waters draining the swamp, including…
How do mangrove forests induce sedimentation?
- Environmental ScienceRevista de biologia tropical
- 2003
Site of Avicennia-Rhizophora interphase is more efficient in trapping the sediment by 30, 25 and 20% respectively at low tide as compared to high tide.
STUDY ON THE EFFECT IN REDUCING TSUNAMI BY THE COASTAL PERMEABLE STRUCTURES
- Engineering
- 2002
In order to understand the tsunami reduction effect of the coastal permeable structures as the coastal forest and the artificial wave dissipating structure, the hydraulic experiment is carried out.…
Profiling Groundwater Salt Concentrations in Mangrove Swamps and Tropical Salt Flats
- Environmental Science
- 1996
The salt concentration of groundwater in mangrove swamps is an important parameter controlling the growth of mangrove species. Extremely high salt concentrations of groundwater in tropical salt flats…
Tsunami lesson
- Dreams 2047 (6),
- 2005
Conserving Our Coastal Environment e A Summary of UNU’s Research on Sustainable Management of the Coastal Hydrosphere in the Asia Pacific Region
- United Nations University,
- 2002
Sand Dune Vegetation of Goa: Conservation and Management
- Botanical Society of Goa, India,
- 2002