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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamiTsunami was one of the deadliest natural disastersNatural disaster in recorded history, causing large-scale property loss and claiming 2.3 million lives. It brought a sense of urgency to introducing effective disaster risk reductionDisaster risk reduction strategies. Known for their resilienceResilience to saline conditions and capacity as effective carbon sinks, mangrovesMangrove have been increasingly recognised for their role in wave attenuation and safeguarding coastal communitiesCoastal communities against various natural disastersNatural disaster. This systematic literature review examines the evolving body of research on the role of mangroves in tsunami disaster risk reductionDisaster risk reduction, with a particular focus on post-2004 tsunami2004 tsunami events. Following PRISMA guidelines, this study systematically reviewed 131 papers selected from an initial dataset of 988 papers sourced from the SCOPUS database. Sixty-seven of the literature exclusively studied mangroves’ role as bio-shieldsBio-shield in mitigating coastal disasters. The methods adopted by scholars to study the role of mangroves in tsunamiTsunami disaster risk reduction include field-based analysis, physical modelling, computational modelling and numerical analysis. With publications from 2005 to 2024, the research activity peaked initially in 2009, thereafter fluctuated and peaked in 2022. The study revealed that the growing research on the role of mangroves has been complemented by increasing real-world actions, including mangrovesMangrove for coastal protection and restoration, especially for those regions vulnerable to frequent erosion and tsunamisTsunamis.

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Two Decades of Lessons: Systematic Review of Mangroves’ Role in Tsunami Disaster Mitigation

  • 会议论文

  • 发表日期：

    2026年

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  • C. Souparnika,
  • S. Siddharth,
  • S. Sivaa Varthana,
  • P. P. Nikhil Raj

摘要

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamiTsunami was one of the deadliest natural disastersNatural disaster in recorded history, causing large-scale property loss and claiming 2.3 million lives. It brought a sense of urgency to introducing effective disaster risk reductionDisaster risk reduction strategies. Known for their resilienceResilience to saline conditions and capacity as effective carbon sinks, mangrovesMangrove have been increasingly recognised for their role in wave attenuation and safeguarding coastal communitiesCoastal communities against various natural disastersNatural disaster. This systematic literature review examines the evolving body of research on the role of mangroves in tsunami disaster risk reductionDisaster risk reduction, with a particular focus on post-2004 tsunami2004 tsunami events. Following PRISMA guidelines, this study systematically reviewed 131 papers selected from an initial dataset of 988 papers sourced from the SCOPUS database. Sixty-seven of the literature exclusively studied mangroves’ role as bio-shieldsBio-shield in mitigating coastal disasters. The methods adopted by scholars to study the role of mangroves in tsunamiTsunami disaster risk reduction include field-based analysis, physical modelling, computational modelling and numerical analysis. With publications from 2005 to 2024, the research activity peaked initially in 2009, thereafter fluctuated and peaked in 2022. The study revealed that the growing research on the role of mangroves has been complemented by increasing real-world actions, including mangrovesMangrove for coastal protection and restoration, especially for those regions vulnerable to frequent erosion and tsunamisTsunamis.