Question

What might be one or more mitigative strategies as climate change progresses for Estuaries?

Answer 1

Mitigative strategies that can be followed as climate change progresses for Estuaries are:

• Reduce the discharge into the river because they effect the regulation of nutrients and microbes.
• Polluted runoff from farmlands, mines, and other activities should be filtered before discharge into the river.
• Anthropogenic forcing by greenhouse gasses has become a dominant cause for recent sea-level change which causes marine habitats to diminish or expand. So humans should reduce the release of greenhouse gas emissions by
  • Avoid fossil fuel burning
  • Avoid deforestation
• Avoid the production and consumption of compounds that deplete ozone in the stratosphere like CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride; so that no further increase in the temperature should occur.