Marine Conservation: Science, Policy, and Management

By G. Carleton Ray

Book Overview

Providing a guide for marine conservation practice, Marine Conservation takes a whole-systems approach, covering major advances in marine ecosystem understanding. Its premise is that conservation must be informed by the natural histories of organisms together with the hierarchy of scale-related linkages and ecosystem processes. The authors introduce a broad range of overlapping issues and the conservation mechanisms that have been devised to achieve marine conservation goals. The book provides students and conservation practitioners with a framework for thoughtful, critical thinking in order to incite innovation in the 21st century.

"Marine Conservation presents a scholarly but eminently readable case for the necessity of a systems approach to conserving the oceans, combining superb introductions to the science, law and policy frameworks with carefully chosen case studies. This superb volume is a must for anyone interested in marine conservation, from students and practitioners to lay readers and policy-makers."
--Simon Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405193476
• ISBN13: 9781405193474
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"