Victoria (AUS) InVEST Blue Carbon Scenarios - Moritsch et al. - "Estimating the value of blue carbon sequestration under coastal management scenarios"

Restoring and protecting “blue carbon” ecosystems - mangrove forests, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows - are proposed actions for increasing global carbon sequestration. To improve understanding of which management actions produce the greatest gains in sequestration, we used a spatially explicit model, the InVEST Coastal Blue Carbon Model, to compare carbon sequestration and its economic value over a broad spatial scale (2500 km of coastline in southeastern Australia) for five management scenarios: (1) No Net Change, (2) Managed Retreat, (3) Managed Retreat Plus Levee Removal, (4) Erosion of High Risk Areas, (5) Erosion of Moderate to High Risk Areas. The dataset contains the following information for the timepoints of 2030, 2050, and 2100:- Total net carbon sequestration (Mg CO2 ha-1), can be positive or negative- Net present value of carbon sequestration (USD ha-1) using the market price of carbon using the Climate Solutions Fund (formerly the Emissions Reductions Fund)- Net present value of carbon sequestration (USD ha-1) using the Social Cost of CarbonFor each scenario, the data are provided as maps covering coastal Victoria, Australia. These maps show spatially explicit carbon gains and losses. This dataset and the methods used to produce it are explained in Moritsch et al. "Estimating the value of blue carbon sequestration under coastal management scenarios"