Environmental coastguards: understanding mangrove ecosystem and carbon sequestration. 2017. illu.(col.). X, 317 p. Hardcover.

How mangroves adopted to salty media is the first chapter of the book and there are ten chapters in total. The last chapter is the climate - mangrove bibliography of national and international collection of literature on the various aspects of mangrove studies. This book have extensive review and meta-analysis data on carbon stock and sequestration in context of climate change. Ecosystem services and functions of mangroves are extensively described in the chapter 2. Presentation on attenuation of wave energy and mitigation of mangroves in response to sea level rise made this book unique among the publications based on mangrove studies. Assessment of stored carbon in 1 year old seedlings of 5 dominant mangrove floral species of Sundarbans is ascribed in Chapter 4 of this book. Mangrove regulates and buffer ocean acidification.

Chapter 6 consists detailed discussion on the role of mangroves to regulate and retard coastal hazards such as tsunami. Mangrove centric livelihood like mariculture, traditional extensive methods of culture, oyster culture are a part of this book in Chapter 7. There are a collection of "Cutting edge research articles on role of mangroves in climate change" in this book. Mangrove forests of Sundarbans ,the focal theme of the book, also provide a broad spectrum of cultural ecosystem services to coastal populations living close to rr'ngrove forests, ranging from the tangible (tourism, recreation, education) to the abstract (cultural heritage, aesthetics, sense of place). Presence of Bonobibi Goddess in Indian Sundarbans is a symbolic convergence of Hinduism and Islamic religions, who is sincerely worshipped by people of different religions, classes and creeds before entering the dense forest of Sundarbans. Very few people of the world know these facts and figures of mangroves.

The present book has highlighted almost all the ecosystem services of mangroves with ground zero level data, which the scientists/researchers have excavated after rigorous field works in the difficult muddy terrains through seasons. The data on carbon sequestration by dominant mangroves of Indian Sundarbans is a pathfinder for global researchers who want to know more about this unique ecosystem of the planet.