G. Carleton Ray, Jerry Mccormick-Ray

Marine Conservation (eBook, ePUB)

Science, Policy, and Management
Illustrator: Smith, Robert L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a guide for marine conservation practice, Marine Conservation takes a whole-systems approach, covering major advances in marine ecosystem understanding. Its premise is that conservation must be informed by the natural histories of organisms together with the hierarchy of scale-related linkages and ecosystem processes. The authors introduce a broad range of overlapping issues and the conservation mechanisms that have been devised to achieve marine conservation goals. The book provides students and conservation practitioners with a framework for thoughtful, critical thinking in order to incite innovation in the 21st century. "Marine Conservation presents a scholarly but eminently readable case for the necessity of a systems approach to conserving the oceans, combining superb introductions to the science, law and policy frameworks with carefully chosen case studies. This superb volume is a must for anyone interested in marine conservation, from students and practitioners to lay readers and policy-makers." --Simon Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118714430
• Artikelnr.: 39681387

Autorenporträt

G. CARLETON RAY is Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. He has conducted basic and applied research in polar and temperate regions and in the tropics, concentrating on natural history of fishes and marine mammals, biodiversity, and conservation science. He has also been actively engaged in marine conservation policy development and marine protected area establishment nationally and internationally. JERRY MCCORMICK-RAY is Senior Scientist at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Her research has focused on marine mammals and marine invertebrates, physiological effects of pollution, and benthic faunal ecology in estuaries and in the Arctic. She has been actively engaged in marine conservation science and its application to policy and protected areas nationally and internationally. Artist: ROBERT L SMITH JR grew up in West Virginia and studied art and biology at West Virginia University. He resides in Albemarle County Virginia where he illustrates books and takes care of his small-scale poultry farm. Bob has done illustration work for trade and text books, as well as for numerous journals and magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
ix Preface
xii About the companion website
xiv 1 IN PURSUIT OF MARINE CONSERVATION
1 1.1 The emergence of modern marine conservation
1 1.2 Defining "marine conservation"
4 1.3 Marine conservation's scope
4 1.4 Adapting marine conservation to the 21st century
5 2 MARINE CONSERVATION ISSUES
7 2.1 Igniting marine conservation concern
7 2.2 Primary issues: loss of marine biodiversity
7 2.3 Secondary issues: human activities
13 2.4 Tertiary issues: emergent and unintended consequences
30 2.5 The challenge for the 21st century
35 3 MARINE CONSERVATION MECHANISMS
43 3.1 The toolkit
43 3.2 Biological conservation
43 3.3 Spatially explicit conservation
48 3.4 Governance: policy
strategy
tactics
50 3.5 Policy instruments for marine conservation
54 3.6 Management concepts
65 3.7 Agents for conservation
68 3.8 Conclusion
70 4 MARINE SYSTEMS: THE BASE FOR CONSERVATION
74 4.1 A systems approach
74 4.2 Dynamic planetary forces
74 4.3 Major ocean structures and conditions
78 4.4 Planetary cycles
81 4.5 Major planetary interfaces
82 4.6 The dynamic coastal realm
86 4.7 The coastal realm: an ecosystem of global importance
92 4.8 The ecosystem concept
97 4.9 Ecosystem base for conservation
99 5 NATURAL HISTORY OF MARINE ORGANISMS
105 5.1 What is natural history?
105 5.2 Darwinian evolution
105 5.3 Diversity of marine life
106 5.4 Life history
112 5.5 Biological associations
123 5.6 Biogeographic patterns in space and time
126 5.7 Biotic functional diversity
127 5.8 "Seascape" as an organizing principle
131 5.9 Natural history: the basis for conservation
132 6 CHESAPEAKE BAY: ESTUARINE RESTORATION WITH AN ENVIRONMENTAL DEBT
137 6.1 The great shellfish bay
137 6.2 Ecological linkages to natural wealth
137 6.3 Eastern oyster: quintessential estuarine species
151 6.4 From resource abundance to ecosystem change
154 6.5 Bay restoration: chartering a course
163 6.6 People shall judge
165 7 BERING SEA SEALS AND WALRUSES: RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
171 G. Carleton Ray
Gary L. Hufford
Thomas R. Loughlin and Igor Krupnik 7.1 A short history of dramatic change
171 7.2 Biophysical setting
172 7.3 Marine mammals of the southeastern Bering Sea
174 7.4 Ice-dependent pinnipeds of the northern Bering Sea
179 7.5 Do large marine mammals matter?
186 7.6 The conflict arena
191 7.7 Cultural factors: subsistence hunting
traditional knowledge
and community well-being
194 7.8 Are Beringian pinnipeds and the Bering Sea ecosystem at risk?
197 8 THE BAHAMAS: CONSERVATION FOR A TROPICAL ISLAND NATION
200 8.1 A nation of islands
200 8.2 Biophysical and social setting
200 8.3 Conservation issues
207 8.4 Governance for sustainability
222 8.5 Island system at a crossroads
230 9 THE ISLES OF SCILLY: SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY
234 Richard M. Warwick 9.1 Setting the scene
234 9.2 Physical and biogeographic setting
234 9.3 Measuring and measures of biodiversity
237 9.4 Sustaining biodiversity from possible threats
253 9.5 Conservation legislation
mechanisms
and voluntary actions
256 9.6 The conservation status of Scilly
260 10 GWAII HAANAS: FROM CONFLICT TO COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT
262 N. A. Sloan 10.1 Nation-to-nation pursuit of land-sea conservation
262 10.2 Natural heritage
263 10.3 Cultural and commercial heritage
272 10.4 Integrating land-sea conservation
278 10.5 Crucible for ecosystem-based management
284 11 SOUTH AFRICA: COASTAL-MARINE CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN A DYNAMIC SOCIO-POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
288 Barry Clark and Allan Heydorn 11.1 A challenge for governance
288 11.2 South Africa's coastal realm: physical
biotic
and human setting
289 11.3 Major conservation issues of South African coasts
294 11.4 Coastal resource management: past and present
303 11.5 In pursuit of the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
306 11.6 The future of coastal management in South Africa
311 12 SPECIES-DRIVEN CONSERVATION OF PATAGONIAN SEASCAPES
315 Claudio Campagna
Valeria Falabella
and Victoria Zavattieri 12.1 Darwin's Patagonia
315 12.2 A conservation dilemma
316 12.3 Oceanographic and biogeographic settings
319 12.4 Conservation setting: the status of a non-pristine ocean
322 12.5 Seascape species: a first approach to setting conservation priorities
323 12.6 From seascape spaces to important foraging areas
324 12.7 The concept of "Large Ocean Reserves"
326 12.8 A first step towards a Patagonian Sea LOR: candidate areas for conservation
331 12.9 Making slow progress
335 References
336 Suggested readings
337 13 FROM BEING TO BECOMING: A FUTURE VISION
339 13.1 The new normal
339 13.2 From being . . .
339 13.3 . . . to becoming
340 13.4 Emerging concepts for marine conservation
344 13.5 Look to the future
353 References
353 Species index
357 Subject index
361