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Footnote 080 / Loss of Wetlands and Marshes

  • ---. “Report on the Environment: Wetlands”. United States Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/wetlands. Accessed 30 Dec. 2021.
  • Columbia Climate School CIESIN. Percentage of Total Population Living in Coastal Areas. United Nations, 2007, p. 6, https://indicators.ucdavis.edu/catalog/frameworks/un-commission-sustainable-development-indicators-sustainable-development.
  • Earth Institute. “Why Do Floods Sometimes Happen on Sunny Days?”. Columbia Climate School: State of the Planet, 29 Nov. 2017, https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2017/11/29/why-do-floods-happen-on-sunny-days/.
  • Narayan, Siddharth, et al. “The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Flood Damage Reduction in the Northeastern USA”. Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, Dec. 2017, p. 9463. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09269-z.
  • Office of Habitat Conservation. “Coastal Wetlands: Too Valuable to Lose”. NOAA Fisheries, 22 Jan. 2021, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/habitat-conservation/coastal-wetlands-too-valuable-lose.
  • “Peatlands”. Wetlands International, https://www.wetlands.org/our-work/peatlands/. Accessed 30 Dec. 2021.
  • The Ocean Conference. Factsheet: People and Oceans. United Nations, 25 May 2017, p. 2, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2017/05/united-nations-ocean-conference-set-to-mobilize-action-to-reverse-marine-degradation-un-headquarters-new-york-5-to-9-june-2017/.
  • Thorne, Karen, et al. “U.S. Pacific Coastal Wetland Resilience and Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise”. Science Advances, vol. 4, no. 2, Feb. 2018, p. eaao3270. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao3270.
  • “Wetlands Are Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests”. IFAD, https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/-/photo/wetlands-are-disappearing-three-times-faster-than-forests. Accessed 30 Dec. 2021.
  • “Wetlands Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests | UNFCCC”. UN Climate Change News, Oct. 2018, https://unfccc.int/news/wetlands-disappearing-three-times-faster-than-forests.
  • Xia, Rosanna. “Salt Marshes Will Vanish in Less than a Century If Seas Keep Rising and California Keeps Building, Study Finds”. Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2018, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-salt-marsh-climate-change-20180221-story.html.
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