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Coastal Pollution - Effects on Living Resources and Humans (Paperback)
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Coastal Pollution - Effects on Living Resources and Humans (Paperback)
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In 1996, after more than a decade of researching the effects of
over-population and the consequent pollution of the greater
metropolitan New York City area, Carl Sindermann published his
observations and conclusions in Ocean Pollution: Effects on Living
Resources and Humans, a mostly technical document that emphasized
the pathological effects of coastal pollution. The stressed species
inhabiting the coastal waters of New York Bight had been the
subject of several laboratory programs, which when integrated with
ongoing pollution studies, provided a superb opportunity to assess
the effects of human impact upon a fragile coastal system. Coastal
Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans is a highly lucid
expansion and revision of that earlier book that preserves some of
the technical aspects and enlightening vignettes recorded in the
original. Organized into three distinct sections this work- I.
Recounts eight specific horror stories based mostly on the
consequences of coastal pollution II. Surveys the effects of
coastal pollution on resource species such as fish and shellfish
and marine mammals III. Examines the effects of coastal pollution
on humans Sindermann ends the work by drawing conclusions and
offering predictions for the future. Reflecting back over his
notable career and beyond, the author ventures back as far as the
1950s in an effort to make readers appreciate the long historical
record that is often forgotten due to our focus on the here ad now.
"Science practiced without occasional genuflection to its history
is too flat and featureless - intense but without depth -
stimulating but lacking an important link with the past. We can do
better." Intending to express insight that goes beyond the
discussion of any one area, the author uses his experiences at the
Sandy Hook laboratory as a lens to provide us with a poignant and
well-documented understanding of the human impact on the inshore
marine
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