The role of coastal forests in the mitigation of tsunami impacts
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Following the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, tree planting campaigns were initiated in coastal areas to rehabilitate devastation wrought by the tsunami and to afforest coastlines cleared of trees in the preceding decades. These efforts were partly justified on the basis of claims that trees and forests had provided protection against the tsunami. Such claims were later questioned, however, and the lack of clear information available to decision-makers became apparent. The role of coastal forests in the mitigation of tsunami impacts attempts to bridge the gap between science and policy by presenting and synthesising information on tsunami protection and forests drawn from empirical studies, simulations and mathematical models.