Economic valuation of mangrove ecosystem service in Vanuatu : Case study of Crab Bay (Malekula Is.) and Eratap (Efate Is.). Summary report

Abstract

Mangrove ecosystems plays an extremely important role in our communities because of the goods that they provide in the production of wood for fuel and construction, the invertebrates and finfish for subsistence and commercial fisheries but also the services provided in coastal protection from storm surges, bio-remediation, sediment trapping and carbon sequestration in mangrove soils mitigating climate change.