The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine BiodiversityIsland Press, 1999 - 240 страница The first edition of The Living Ocean, published in 1991 by Island Press in association with Friends of the Earth, was widely praised by scientists, policymakers, instructors, and general readers as a useful and accessible introduction to the science and policy of biological diversity in marine environments. Since that time, much new research has been conducted and numerous national and international policy initiatives have been undertaken.With 1998 designated by the United Nations as the International Year of the Ocean, this new, revised and expanded, edition is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature.This edition brings the volume up-to-date, and re-establishes it as an essential primer for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of marine biodiversity and how it can be protected. It provides an overview of basic concepts and principles and a review of relevant policy issues and existing instruments. The author:defines biological diversity and discusses the importance of threats to marine biodiversity reviews the current status of scientific knowledge describes the major coastal and oceanic ecosystem types and addresses the major threats in each presents a general discussion of the ways in which government and the public can protect marine biological diversity provides specific examples of national and international policies, legal instruments, programs, and institutions addresses how social, economic, political, and ethical considerations affect decisions to conserve marine biological diversity considers the involvement of citizens in developing ocean policy The book also includes a useful glossary that provides information about basic biological concepts, and a comprehensive bibliography. Throughout, the author emphasizes the relationship of human societies and governments to the living ocean, and the need to implement programs that will protect ecosystems and species. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Importance of Marine Biodiversity | 5 |
The Threats to Marine Biodiversity | 15 |
How Science Describes Marine Biodiversity | 37 |
Coastal Marine Ecosystems | 59 |
OpenOcean Ecosystems | 83 |
Conservation of Marine Biodiversity | 111 |
International and National Initiatives for Conservation of Marine Biodiversity | 135 |
Can Marine Biodiversity Be Saved? | 167 |
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The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity Boyce Thorne-Miller Приказ није доступан - 1999 |
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Страница ix - We know now what was unknown to all the preceding caravan of generations: that men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. This new knowledge should have given us, by this time, a sense of kinship with fellow-creatures; a wish to live and let live; a sense of wonder over the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise.