Imperiled Ocean

Author : Laura Trethewey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781643132778

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Imperiled Ocean by Laura Trethewey Pdf

On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe alive. A young chef disappears from a cruise ship, leaving a mystery for his friends and family to solve. A water-squatting community battles eviction from a harbor in a Pacific Northwest town, raising the question of who owns the water. Imperiled Ocean is a deeply reported work of narrative journalism that follows people as they head out to sea. What they discover holds inspiring and dire implications for the life of the ocean, and for all of us back on land. As Imperiled Ocean unfolds, battles are fought, fortunes made, and lives are lost. Behind this human drama, the ocean is growing ever more unstable, threatening to upend life on land. We meet a biologist tracking sturgeon who is unable to stop the development and pollution destroying the fish’s habitat, he races to learn about the fish before it disappears. Sturgeon has survived more than 300 million years on earth and could hold important truths about how humanity might make itself amenable to a changing ocean. As a fisher and scientist, his ability to listen to the water becomes a parable for today. By eavesdropping on an imperiled world, he shows a way we can move forward to save the oceans we all share.

Author : Randall S. Abate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190297602

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Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law by Randall S. Abate Pdf

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law. The protection of oceans has received increased attention in the past decade because of sea-level rise, ocean acidification, the global overfishing crisis, widespread depletion of marine biodiversity such as marine mammals and coral reefs, and marine pollution. Paralleling the growth of ocean and coastal law, climate change regulation has emerged as a focus of international environmental diplomacy, and has gained increased attention in the wake of disturbing and abrupt climate change related impacts throughout the world that have profound implications for ocean and coastal regulation and marine resources. Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law effectively unites these two worlds. It raises important questions about whether and how ocean and coastal law will respond to the regulatory challenges that climate change presents to resources in the oceans and coasts of the U.S. and the world. This comprehensive work assembles the insights of global experts from academia and major NGOs (e.g., Center for International Environmental Law, Ocean Conservancy, and Environmental Law Institute) to address regulatory challenges from the perspectives of U.S. law, foreign domestic law, and international law.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Barrow, Point (Alaska)
ISBN : PURD:32754082697297

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Relief Expedition to the Arctic Ocean by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Robin Kundis Craig
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781005200

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Comparative Ocean Governance by Robin Kundis Craig Pdf

Comparative Ocean Governance examines the world's attempts to improve ocean governance through place-based management—marine protected areas, ocean zoning, marine spatial planning—and evaluates this growing trend in light of the advent of climate change and its impacts on the seas. This monograph opens with an explanation of the economics of the oceans and their value to the global environment and the earth's population, the long-term stressors that have impacted oceans, and the new threats to ocean sustainability that climate change poses. It then examines the international framework for ocean management and coastal nations' increasing adoption of place-based governance regimes. The final section explores how these place-based management regimes intersect with climate change adaptation efforts, either accidentally or intentionally. It then offers suggestions for making place-based marine management even more flexible and responsive for the future. Environmental law scholars, legislators and policymakers, marine scientists, and all those concerned for the welfare of the world's oceans will find this book of great value.

Author : Serpil Oppermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009393287

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Blue Humanities by Serpil Oppermann Pdf

By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet's troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls for transdisciplinary cooperation and encourages thinking with water and thinking together beyond the conventions of tentacular anthropocentric thought. Working across many disciplines, the blue humanities, then, challenges the cultural primacy of standard sea and freshwater narratives and promotes disanthropocentric discourses about water ecologies. Engaging with the most pressing water problems, this Element contributes to those new discursive practices from a material ecocritical perspective. The authors' hypothesis is that fluid-storied matter and the new stories we tell can change the game by changing our mindset.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050424857

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NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION ACT, JUNE 29, 2006, 109-2 HOUSE REPORT NO. 109-545, PART 1 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754076768625

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9251056854

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Report and Documentation of the Expert Workshop on Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Management by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This document contains the report of the workshop and the background papers commissioned for the meeting. The report, and in particular the 'Key Points' adopted by the workshop, will serve as basis for further work on developing technical guidelines for the design, implementation and review of MPAs.

Author : California
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1586 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210023081365

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Statutes of California and Digests of Measures by California Pdf

Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393651454

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett Pdf

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.

Author : United States. Marine Mammal Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Marine mammals
ISBN : UCSD:31822008894453

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Annual Report of the Marine Mammal Commission by United States. Marine Mammal Commission Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : UCSD:31822030201537

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Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050462691

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Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Bruce Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982127268

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To Rule the Waves by Bruce Jones Pdf

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly painted forty-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits from it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in vivid, closely observed prose, Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases—from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America’s standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time—for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate—are playing out atop, within, and below the world’s oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822037829975

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Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Pdf