Sustainable Poverty Alleviation From Coastal Ecosystem Services: Mangrove Activities, 2013–2017

Mangroves provide important socio-ecological services to coastal communities, such as coastal line protection, fish, shrimp and crab fishery, provide domestic fuel and building material. If excessive, the extractive exploitation of mangrove resources can lead to substantial changes in the forest structure of mangrove forests, and can also impair the provision of ecological services. The mangrove data collected throughout the SPACES project (Forest structure and condition; Soil carbon) has been used to quantify the transformations that occurred on mangroves in peri-urban and rural sites and used to compare the sites.