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Salt marsh restoration

Ecosystem restoration that re-establishes salt marsh vegetation in coastal wetlands, restoring coastal protection, habitat, and blue carbon storage that buffer climate hazards.

Definition source: IPCC SROCC Ch.5 (coastal wetlands); AGROVOC: saltmarshes (c_6763)

Synonyms

saltmarsh restoration, tidal marsh restoration

Broader

Ecosystem restoration

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

INT_071 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_071
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_071)