Marine Conservation: People, Ideas and Action (Perspectives in Conservation Biology) - Softcover

Earll, Bob

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ISBN 10: 1784271764 ISBN 13: 9781784271763

Verlag: Pelagic Publishing, 2018

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Bob Earll explores what marine conservation involves in practice by providing a synthesis of the main developments from the viewpoints of 19 leading practitioners who have shape its progress and successes. Case studies describe a wide range of European and international projects.

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Inspired by a range of diving projects from the late 1960s, Bob Earll studied zoology and then the ecophysiology of mussels for his PhD. Work on citizen science projects for divers lead to his appointment for what became the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). From 1978-1992 he led and helped develop the organisation’s growth through its early days, co-ordinating a wide range of marine conservation issues from basking sharks, pollution, MPAs and ICZM. Since leaving MCS he helped set up a variety of organisations and networks on issues from shark conservation, aquatic litter and a marine industry group.

He is a consultant for Government, its agencies and NGOs on a wide range of topics. Through his skills as a conference and meetings convenor he has worked on a wide variety of issues from fish farming, aggregates, marine spatial planning and marine legislation. He has organised well over 200 conferences but the Coastal Futures conference, now approaching its 25th year, which takes place annually in London, is recognised as the main meeting that brings together the UK’s coastal and marine environmental community. He runs CMS - Communications and Management for Sustainability - which provides a unique jobs and events advertising services and weekly newsletters to the marine community of over 6,000 people.

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Marine Conservation

People, Ideas and Action

By Bob Earll

Pelagic Publishing

Copyright © 2018 Bob Earll
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-78427-176-3

Contents

Acronyms and abbreviations, viii, 
1 Introduction, 1, 
2 Marine conservation, 7, 
3 People, 25, 
4 Ideas, 36, 
5 Roger Mitchell, 47, 
6 Keith Hiscock, 61, 
7 Sue Gubbay, 72, 
8 Joan Edwards, 84, 
9 Dan Laffoley, 95, 
10 Callum Roberts, 106, 
11 Jon C. Day, 119, 
12 Keith Probert, 129, 
13 Heather Koldewey, 135, 
14 Sarah Fowler, 146, 
15 Euan Dunn, 157, 
16 Simon Brockington, 171, 
17 Sue Sayer, 182, 
18 Alan Knight, 193, 
19 Paul Horsman, 203, 
20 Chris Rose, 214, 
21 Peter Barham, 226, 
22 Charles 'Bud' Ehler, 237, 
23 Elliott Norse, 250, 
24 Action, 257, 
25 Conclusions, 278, 
References, 286, 
Index, 292, 

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Today, marine conservation is a widely recognised human endeavour, but when I was at university in the late 1960s, it barely existed. When I started work in 1978 for what became the Marine Conservation Society you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people employed full time in the UK with marine conservation in their job titles. For many it was a very small part their main jobs. Since then, there has been a massive transformation, and marine conservation is now recognised as a mainstream activity by governments worldwide, advocated by hundreds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and engaging many thousands of people.

The development of marine conservation is a story about people whose ideas and actions have challenged the status quo and have been translated into tangible protection for the marine environment. I have had the privilege to work with many who have played a part in this transformation, and as the idea for this book grew it seemed worthwhile to explore the development of marine conservation through their eyes. Accordingly, I interviewed nineteen marine conservation practitioners, and their chapters form the main content of the book. All of the interviewees have been directly involved in activities that have made a difference, often in difficult circumstances, and they have pioneered developments in many areas.

The central aim of this book is to describe and scope the development of marine conservation over the last fifty years through the very different perspectives of the interviewees. The book also explores some of the common themes to emerge from their chapters in a series of crosscutting chapters.

There are four main themes to this book:

• Marine conservation – its scope and development

• People – marine conservationists, their rationale, motivation, diversity of approach and skills

• Ideas that have influenced the way we protect our seas and undertake marine conservation

• Actions that have made a difference

MARINE CONSERVATION

The term marine conservation is used throughout the book in a deliberately open way, often coupled with the phrase protecting the marine environment. Environmentalists in its widest sense is another word that could usefully be applied to the interviewees. It is also clear that a large body of work surrounds managing human activities in the marine environment. You do not need to be a conservationist to work on protecting the marine environment, and many disciplines have been brought to bear to achieve significant gains for conservation as well as protecting the wider marine environment from the most damaging of human activities.

Chapter 2 describes what marine conservation involves, its scope and development. It explores how people frame and define their approach to marine conservation to guide their work, and reveals a wide range of viewpoints far richer than are found in textbook definitions. The chapter also includes a systematic structure for the content of marine conservation, revealing the richness of the subject (Earll 2016). Similarities and differences between terrestrial and marine conservation are explored, and the chapter finishes by outlining the broad challenges of marine conservation as it has developed.

PEOPLE

The key idea of the book was to involve a wide range of people. This is an approach which is entirely consistent with the way marine conservation is undertaken, because a major difference between marine and terrestrial conservation is that the former involves far more work with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve change.

People often come to marine conservation with an interest in a particular topic – maybe corals, cetaceans, birds or fish – but this book is more about marine conservationists and the way they work, than what they work on. Another reality is that many of the people who have made a huge contribution to protecting the oceans, including the interviewees, do not have conservation in their job description, let alone their job title, because managing and protecting the marine environment can be done in many ways.

For the nineteen interviewees, this book describes, in their own words, how their interest in protecting the environment and marine conservation started, and how it developed. Their work relates to different interests, from seahorses to whales, and from habitat protection and marine protected areas to management of large areas of sea and the mitigation of damage from pollution, fishing and many other human uses of the sea.

As important and interesting is the wide variety of disciplines and styles they have adopted in their conservation work in order to achieve change. Chapter 3 describes a number of elements of this, including:

• The personal development and inspiration of the interviewees and their mentors

• Their personal qualities and skills, such as passion, commitment, ambition and innovation

• The nature of marine conservation as a career or a vocation

• Their experience of building organisations and capacity building

Chapter 3 also explores how people have worked together in different ways, including multi-sectoral partnerships, active collaborations of organisations working together to find solutions to problems, as well as more focused work with particular sectors, such as the fishing industry, to find solutions to conservation problems.

IDEAS

The ideas that drive marine conservation have been heavily influenced by the wider context of thinking on conservation, the environment and sustainability. There are at least six major drivers, as described in Chapter 4:

1. Terrestrial and marine biodiversity conservation

2. Science

3. Environmental management

4. Sustainability and its principles

5. Other cultural inputs, including welfare, non-violent protest and social sciences

6. Events, planned and unplanned

ACTION

Something that sets conservation apart from many other disciplines is the desire to act and respond to the status quo in order to try and achieve change in activities that harm the environment, its species and ecosystems. Every chapter reflects the reality of delivering such change, covering an enormous range of case studies from UK, European and international perspectives. The book deliberately covers an enormous range of styles, including the science-policy approach, direct action, welfare, advocacy, innovation, capacity building, campaigning and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pelagic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784271764
• ISBN 13: 9781784271763
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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