Perspectives on Oceans Past: A Handbook of Marine Environmental History: 2016
A Handbook of Marine Environmental History: 2016
Perspectives on Oceans Past: A Handbook of Marine Environmental History: 2016
Author: Bo Poulsen Kathleen Schwerdtner ManezPublisher: SpringerCategory: General & World History, Marine Biology, Geology & The Lithosphere, Historical Geology, Deltas, Estuaries, Coastal RegionsBook Format: HardcoverMarine environmental history analyses the changing relationships between human societies and marine natural resources over time. This is the first book which deals in a systematic way with the theoretical backgrounds of this discipline. Major theories and methods are introduced by leading scholars of the field. The book seeks to encapsulate some of the major novelties of this fascinating new discipline and its contribution to the management, conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as the cultural heritages of coastal communities in different parts of the world.
Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez is affiliated at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine
Ecology (ZMT) in Germany.
Prof. Dr Bo Poulsen is affiliated at the Aalborg University in Denmark.
Table Of Contents
1. Of seascapes and people - multiple perspectives on oceans past.- 2. Acknowledging long-term ecological change: the problem of shifting baselines.- 3. Historical Fishing Communities.- 4. Archaeology as a tool for understanding past marine resource use and its impact.- 5. Human archives: Historians' methodologies and past marine resource use.- 6. On the need to study fishing power change: challenges and perspectives.- 7. Ecological indicators and food-web models as tools to study historical changes in marine ecosystems.- 8. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in historical perspective.- 9. Oral Histories: Informing Natural Resource Management Using Perceptions of the Past.- 10. A sea-change in the sea? Perceptions and practices towards sea turtles and manatees in Portugal's Atlantic Ocean legacy.- 11. Fish is women`s business too - looking at marine resource use through a gender lens.About Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez
Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Manez is affiliated at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) in Germany. Prof. Dr Bo Poulsen is affiliated at the Aalborg University in Denmark.(BK-9789401774956)
| SKU | BK-9789401774956 |
| Barcode # | 9789401774956 |
| Brand | Springer |
| Artist / Author | Bo Poulsen Kathleen Schwerdtner Manez |
| Shipping Weight | 0.5000kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.160m |
| Shipping Height | 0.010m |
| Shipping Length | 0.230m |
| Assembled Length | 23.400m |
| Assembled Height | 1.400m |
| Assembled Width | 15.600m |
| Type | Hardcover |
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