The Wealth of Oceans: Environment and Development on Our Ocean Planet - Softcover

Weber, Michael L.

 
9780393341928: The Wealth of Oceans: Environment and Development on Our Ocean Planet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393341925 ISBN 13: 9780393341928
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

For thousands of years humanity has seen the oceans as a mysterious and limitless source of treasures to be fished, harvested, mined, and salvaged. Now accelerating developments in ocean studies offer a new understanding of the oceans, their role in a global ecosystem, and their vulnerability to threats from human action. Drawing on the latest research this book offers a fascinating tour of the complex reaches of our ocean world and points the way toward changes that will preserve, rather than squander, the wealth of oceans.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Weber is a member of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Fisheries Department.

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An adjunct to "Ocean Planet", a major traveling exhibition opening at the Smithsonian Institution in 1995, this fascinating book is the first to explore the newest discoveries in oceanography and marine ecology in the context of the global economy and human population growth. For thousands of years humanity has seen the oceans as a mysterious, and limitless, source of treasures to be fished, harvested, mined, and salvaged. Now accelerating developments in ocean studies offer a new understanding of the oceans, their role in a global ecosystem, and their vulnerability to threats from human action. Drawing on the latest research, this book offers a fascinating tour of the complex reaches of our ocean world and points the way toward changes that will preserve, rather than squander, the wealth of oceans.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393341925
ISBN 13 
9780393341928
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
258
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