NESP MaC Project 1.15 – Coastal wetland restoration for Blue Carbon in northern Australia 2021-2022 (UQ)
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Coastal wetland restoration for Blue Carbon in northern Australia". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
Investment in restoration of coastal wetland ecosystems is increasing due to concerns around habitat loss, water quality, decline in fish catches, coastal inundation and erosion, and climate change. Coastal wetlands, including mangroves, saltmarshes, seagrasses and tidal freshwater forests like Melaleuca have significant capacity to sequester carbon dioxide contributing to blue carbon stocks. They provide habitat for coastal fisheries and a range of biodiversity and are culturally important. This project aims to develop a method, that can be widely used across Australia, to prioritise coastal wetland restoration sites for Blue Carbon projects based on a value-based framework that considers biophysical suitability, balancing of wetland values, condition, regulation and policy adequacy, and economic feasibility.
Planned Outputs
• Spatial data outputs from the Fitzroy Basin QLD, south-west WA and northern Australia analysis [spatial dataset]
• Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-05-27T00:00:00
- Purpose
- This project will identify the opportunities for: i) coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon in three different regions in Australia ii) identify sites for investment based on biophysical suitability, economic feasibility, policy adequacy, and wetland values iii) social feasibility It will identify the factors influencing restoration opportunities and economic feasibility, and the trade-offs in wetland values. It will provide a values-based framework that can be applied to other regions of Australia to identify blue carbon restoration opportunities.
- Credit
- Team members: Catherine Lovelock (University of Queensland), Valerie Hagger (University of Queensland)
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DAWE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Project extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2021-09-01 2022-04-29
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Marine and coastal region of Australia
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- marine
- AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
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- Coastal Waters (Australia)
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
- Project page on NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
- OnLine resource
- NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
- OnLine resource
- NESP MaC - Round 1 page
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/70d04b43-7bda-4f3a-bba8-676a228b9d95
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
eAtlas Data ManagerAustralian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- NESP MaC hub Project 1.15
- Metadata linkage
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https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/70d04b43-7bda-4f3a-bba8-676a228b9d95
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-05-10T16:08:28
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-04-11T06:33:35
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018