To begin with, a good exercise is to evaluate how much economies have had to swallow loss and dead folks due to chopping away the Mangrove ecosystems on tropical coasts.
I'll give you some good examples too on the economic value of mangroves for example as protection against storm tides, for tourism and to increase the livelihood of folks living at tropical coastlines. Cheap restoration of these ecosystems is one of the ways to increase safety at eroding coastlines and to build economical value (again).