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UNINA9910956743003321 |
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Titolo |
Defying ocean's end : an agenda for action / / edited by Linda K. Glover and Sylvia A. Earle ; assistant editor, Arlo H. Hemphill ; foreword by Graeme Kelleher ; maps by Debra Fischman |
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Washington, : Island Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-59726-751-1 |
1-4237-6717-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GloverLinda K |
EarleSylvia A. <1935-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Marine ecology |
Aquatic resources conservation |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Editors/Authors; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Invitation to Action; Foreword; Preface; Overview; Ch. 1: The Caribbean; Ch. 2: Seamount Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation; Ch. 3: The Southern Ocean: A Model System for Conserving Resources?; Ch. 4: Coral Triangle; Ch. 5: The Gulf of California: Natural Resource Concerns and the Pursuit of a Vision; Ch. 6: Lines on the Water: Ocean-Use Planning in Large Marine Ecosystems; Ch. 7: Rationality or Chaos? Global Fisheries at the Crossroads |
Ch. 8: A Global Network for Sustained Governance of Coastal Ecosystems Ch. 9: Restoring and Maintaining Marine Ecosystem Function; Ch. 10: Defying Ocean's End through the Power of Communications; Ch. 11: Ocean Governance: A New Ethos through a World Ocean Public Trust; Ch. 12: The Unknown Ocean; Ch. 13: Business Plan; Time for a Sea Change; Conference Participants; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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If humankind were given a mandate to do everything in our power to undermine the earth's functioning, we could hardly do a better job than we have in the past thirty years on the world's oceans, both by what we are putting into it-millions of tons of trash and toxic materials-and by |
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