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. <br>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 Carbon<br>For each scenario, the data are provided as maps covering coastal Victoria, Australia. These maps show spatially explicit carbon gains and losses. <br>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"