Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate Noone Sumaila Diaz Hardback

Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing ClimateSustainability and Economic Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Kevin J. Noone, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Robert J. Diaz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc\nISBN-13: 9780124076686, 978-0124076686\nSynopsis\nManaging Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate summarizes the current state of several threats to the global oceans. What distinguishes this book most from previous works is that this book begins with a holistic, global-scale focus for the first several chapters and then provides an example of how this approach can be applied on a regional scale, for the Pacific region. Previous works usually have compiled local studies, which are essentially impossible to properly integrate to the global scale. The editors have engaged leading scientists in a number of areas, such as fisheries and marine ecosystems, ocean chemistry, marine biogeochemical cycling, oceans a.