The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection

@inproceedings{Costanza2008TheVO,
  title={The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection},
  author={Robert Costanza and Octavio P{\'e}rez-Maqueo and M. Luisa Mart{\'i}nez and Paul C. Sutton and Sharolyn Anderson and Kenneth Mulder},
  booktitle={Ambio},
  year={2008}
}
Abstract Coastal wetlands reduce the damaging effects of hurricanes on coastal communities. A regression model using 34 major US hurricanes since 1980 with the natural log of damage per unit gross domestic product in the hurricane swath as the dependent variable and the natural logs of wind speed and wetland area in the swath as the independent variables was highly significant and explained 60% of the variation in relative damages. A loss of 1 ha of wetland in the model corresponded to an… Expand
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