Marine Conservation – Science, Policy, and Management Ray Paperback

Marine ConservationScience, Policy, and Management\nAuthor(s): G. Carleton Ray, Jerry McCormick-Ray, Robert L. Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405193474, 978-1405193474\nSynopsis\nProviding 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 ofy