NSW Blue Carbon Compatibility under 2017 Landuse

Created 08/06/2025

Updated 08/06/2025

Human activities in coastal landscapes also exert both direct and indirect pressures on blue carbon (McLeod et al., 2011). Rogers et al. (2019) accounted for this pressure using land-use mapping, with the premise being that natural landscapes are more compatible with storage, preservation, and generation of blue carbon, whilst intensive land-use activities are less compatible. They proposed that this approach partly accounts for socio-economic factors that influence blue carbon. In this study, 2017 land-use mapping was reclassified based on perceived present-day compatibility with blue carbon to generate a blue carbon compatibility (BCC) raster dataset. McLeod, E., Chmura, G.L., Bouillon, S., Salm, R., Björk, M., Duarte, C.M., Lovelock, C.E., Schlesinger, W.H., and Silliman, B.R. (2011). A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9, 552-560. Rogers, K., Macreadie, P.I., Kelleway, J.J., and Saintilan, N. (2019b). Blue carbon in coastal landscapes: a spatial framework for assessment of stocks and additionality. Sustainability Science 14, 453-467.

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Title NSW Blue Carbon Compatibility under 2017 Landuse
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/fba1e8ef-b65a-401f-abe4-43df395acf7a
Remote Last Updated 02/06/2022
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Reference Period 16/05/2020
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "NSW Blue Carbon Compatibility under 2017 Landuse". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-nsw-blue-carbon-compatibility-under-2017-landuse