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Oceans Past - Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations (Paperback)
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Oceans Past - Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Research Editions
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[A] fascinating volume, which establishes marine environmental
history as a major new discipline for academics as well as an
exciting way to bring history and the natural world alive for the
public. ANDREW A. ROSENBERG, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE The HMAP
project is to be congratulated on this book, which presents vivid,
evidence-based reconstructions of historical fisheries and the
prolific ecosystems in which they were embedded. TONY J. PITCHER,
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The ingenuity and scholarship of the
authors allow us to see ... how human societies have depended on
and influenced marine living resources from periwinkles to whales.
MIKE SINCLAIR, BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY This book exalts
the surprisingly fruitful marriage of historians and marine
scientists - a union that has proven to be one of the most exciting
developments in ocean research in recent years. KATHERINE
RICHARDSON, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN For centuries the seas
appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources,
their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. In more recent
times, episodes such as the extreme exploitation and subsequent
collapse of cod populations of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland
have highlighted the fallaciousness of this view. Yet all too often
the lessons from our historical interactions with marine animals
are little known, let alone learned. Based on research for the
History of Marine Animal Populations project, Oceans Past examines
the complex relationship our forebears had with the sea and the
animals that inhabit it. It presents eleven studies ranging from
fisheries and invasive species to offshore technology and the study
of marine environmental history, bringing together the perspectives
of historians and marine scientists to enhance understanding of
ocean management of the past, present and future. In doing so, it
also highlights the influence that changes in marine ecosystems
have upon the politics, welfare and culture of human societies.
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