Leveraging the blue economy to transform marine forest restoration

The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration is a response to the urgent need to substantially accelerate and upscale ecological restoration to secure Earth’s sustainable future. Globally, restoration commitments have focused overwhelmingly on terrestrial forests. In contrast, despite a strong value proposition, efforts to restore seaweed forests lag far behind other major ecosystems and continue to be dominated by small-scale, short-term academic experiments. However, seaweed forest restoration can match the scale of damage and threat if moved from academia into the hands of community groups, industry, and restoration practitioners. Connecting two rapidly growing sectors in the Blue Economy—seaweed cultivation and the restoration industry—can transform marine forest restoration into a commercial-scale enterprise that can make a significant contribution to global restoration efforts.

Palavras-chave

Coastal habitat Cultivation Industry Macroalgae Seaweed Upscaling

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/7535

Citação

Filbee-Dexter, K., Wernberg, T., Barreiro, R., Coleman, M.A., de Bettignies, T., Feehan, C.J., Franco, J.N., Hasler, B., Louro, I., Norderhaug, K.M., Staehr, P.A.U., Tuya, F. and Verbeek, J. (2022), Leveraging the blue economy to transform marine forest restoration. J. Phycol., 58: 198-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13239

Editora

Wiley

DOI

10.1111/jpy.13239

Coleções

MARE - Artigos com peer review

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