Book: Marine Conservation – People, Ideas and Action
This book presents an overview of what marine conservation is today, and how it has developed since its inception in the early 1960s with chapters from 19 world leading practitioners.
It covers the main ideas they have used but in particular how they have taken action to change situations to deliver positive outcomes for the marine environment. Given the challenges the marine environment faces the book’s description of the actions sets out how an ever more diverse community of people can help the oceans for the future.
‘It is easy to observe, document and lament the problems now affecting the health of the ocean, and in this volume those issues are spelled out with authority. But, most importantly, solutions are offered that provide hope for reversal of today’s alarming trends’ – Sylvia Earle.
Marine Conservation – People, Ideas and Action is a non-nonsense book outlining how marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organisations. Marine conservation activities have been applied to a huge diversity of species, habitats, ecosystems and whole seas. Many marine conservation actions have been focussed on human impacts on the marine environment from development and pollution to the impacts of fisheries. Whilst science has provided the backbone of thinking of thinking on marine conservation, perhaps the biggest change over this period has been the use of an ever increasing range of techniques and difference disciplines to further marine conservation ends.
Bob Earll explores what marine conservation involves in practice by providing a synthesis of the main developments from the viewpoint of 19 leading practitioners with chapters on each. The forward is by Sylvia Earle, and the chapters cover Roger Mitchell, Keith Hiscock, Sue Gubbay, Joan Edwards, Dan Laffoley, Callum Roberts, Jon Day, Keith Probert, Heather Koldewey, Sarah Fowler, Euan Dunn, Simon Brockington, Sue Sayer, Alan Knight, Paul Horsman, Chris Rose, Peter Barham, Bud Ehler and Elliott Norse.
Marine conservation is directly involved in achieving change. The narratives of the book highlight the diversity and richness of marine conservation in practice with reference to a host of projects and case studies. Many of these narratives demonstrate how innovative conservationists have been – often developing novel approaches to problems where very little information and no frameworks exist. The case studies described are based on a wide range of European and international projects.
This book takes an in-depth look at the reality of delivering marine conservation in practice, where achieving change is often a complicated process, with barriers to overcome that have nothing to do with science. Marine conservationists will often be working with a wide diversity of stakeholders for whom marine conservation is not a priority. This book aims to help describe and understand marine conservation across the piece, its realities by demonstrating that successful and inspirational projects can be delivered against the odds.
The opening section describes what marine conservation involves with an action wheel diagram covering the things we want to conserve (species, habitats and seas), human impacts and actions. These are described in 93 categories. The first three chapters, Marine Conservation, People and Ideas succinctly summarise the main features of marine conservation. Five timelines demonstrate the major development points of marine conservation over the last 50 years along with 5 text boxes which amply the role of individuals and organisations. The final section on ‘Action’ confronts the challenges we face and leaves the reader feeling positive about what they can do play their part in the future.
Author: Bob Earll
ISBN: 9781784271763
Format: Paperback, 303 pages
Published by: Pelagic Publishing
This book presents an overview of what marine conservation is today, and how it has developed since its inception in the early 1960s with chapters from 19 world leading practitioners.
It covers the main ideas they have used but in particular how they have taken action to change situations to deliver positive outcomes for the marine environment. Given the challenges the marine environment faces the book’s description of the actions sets out how an ever more diverse community of people can help the oceans for the future.
‘It is easy to observe, document and lament the problems now affecting the health of the ocean, and in this volume those issues are spelled out with authority. But, most importantly, solutions are offered that provide hope for reversal of today’s alarming trends’ – Sylvia Earle.
Marine Conservation – People, Ideas and Action is a non-nonsense book outlining how marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organisations. Marine conservation activities have been applied to a huge diversity of species, habitats, ecosystems and whole seas. Many marine conservation actions have been focussed on human impacts on the marine environment from development and pollution to the impacts of fisheries. Whilst science has provided the backbone of thinking of thinking on marine conservation, perhaps the biggest change over this period has been the use of an ever increasing range of techniques and difference disciplines to further marine conservation ends.
Bob Earll explores what marine conservation involves in practice by providing a synthesis of the main developments from the viewpoint of 19 leading practitioners with chapters on each. The forward is by Sylvia Earle, and the chapters cover Roger Mitchell, Keith Hiscock, Sue Gubbay, Joan Edwards, Dan Laffoley, Callum Roberts, Jon Day, Keith Probert, Heather Koldewey, Sarah Fowler, Euan Dunn, Simon Brockington, Sue Sayer, Alan Knight, Paul Horsman, Chris Rose, Peter Barham, Bud Ehler and Elliott Norse.
Marine conservation is directly involved in achieving change. The narratives of the book highlight the diversity and richness of marine conservation in practice with reference to a host of projects and case studies. Many of these narratives demonstrate how innovative conservationists have been – often developing novel approaches to problems where very little information and no frameworks exist. The case studies described are based on a wide range of European and international projects.
This book takes an in-depth look at the reality of delivering marine conservation in practice, where achieving change is often a complicated process, with barriers to overcome that have nothing to do with science. Marine conservationists will often be working with a wide diversity of stakeholders for whom marine conservation is not a priority. This book aims to help describe and understand marine conservation across the piece, its realities by demonstrating that successful and inspirational projects can be delivered against the odds.
The opening section describes what marine conservation involves with an action wheel diagram covering the things we want to conserve (species, habitats and seas), human impacts and actions. These are described in 93 categories. The first three chapters, Marine Conservation, People and Ideas succinctly summarise the main features of marine conservation. Five timelines demonstrate the major development points of marine conservation over the last 50 years along with 5 text boxes which amply the role of individuals and organisations. The final section on ‘Action’ confronts the challenges we face and leaves the reader feeling positive about what they can do play their part in the future.
Author: Bob Earll
ISBN: 9781784271763
Format: Paperback, 303 pages
Published by: Pelagic Publishing