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Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management

Edited by Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suarez de Vivero, Tundi S. Agardy

To Be Published February 15th 2014 by Routledge – 640 pages

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Description

This comprehensive Handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes. The underlying approach is geographical, with prominence given to the biosphere, political arrangements and regional patterns – all considered to be especially crucial to the human understanding required for the use and management of the world's oceans.

Part one addresses key themes in our knowledge of relationships between people and the sea on a global scale, including economic and political issues, and understanding and managing marine environments. Part two provides a systematic review of the uses of the sea, grouped into food, ocean space, materials and energy, and the sea as an environmental resource. Part three on the geography of the sea considers management strategies especially related to the state system, and regional management developments in both core economic regions and the developing periphery. The primary themes within each chapter are governance (including institutional and legal bases); policy – sets of ideas governing management; and management, both technical and general.

Contents

1. Introduction

Hance Smith, Juan Suarez de Vivero and Tundi Agardi

Part 1: The World Ocean

Economic and Political Issues

2. The Blue Economy: Development of the World Ocean

Linwood Pendleton

3. State Ocean Strategies and Policies

Patricio Bernal

4. Changing Geopolitical Scenarios

Juan Suarez de Vivero

5. Global International Institutions

Aurora Mateos

6. Regionalisation and the Emerging Political Order

Lee Kimball

Understanding and Managing Marine Environments

7. Blue Planet: the Role of the Oceans in Nutrient Cycling, Maintaining the Atmospheric System, and Modulating Climate Change

Susan Libes

8. Marine and Coastal Biodiversity

9. Biological Basis of Commercial Fisheries and Aquaculture

Tony Pitcher

10. Living Resources and Food from the Sea

Charlotte de Fontaubert

11. Marine Scientific Research

Montserrat Gorian-Ysern

12. Strategic Adaptive Management

Richard Kenchington

13. The Health of the Oceans

Fiorenza Micheli

14. Science and Policy

Rebecca Koss

Part 2: The Uses of the Sea

Living Resources

15. Fisheries within State Jurisdictions

Kevern Cochrane

16. The High Seas and IUU Fishing

Rashid Sumaila and Henrik Osterblom

17. Small Scale Fisheries

Ratana Chuenpagdee

18. Aquaculture

Selina Stead

Ocean Space

19. Seapower

Steven Haines

20. Shipping and Navigation

Jeanette Reis and Kyriaki Mitroussi

21. Seaports: Linking Sea to Land

Tony MacDonald

22. Communications

Lionel Carter

Energy and Materials

23. Oil and Gas

Hance Smith and Tara Thrupp

24. Renewable Energy

Sean ONeill

25. Ocean Minerals

James R Hein

26. Marine Genetic Resources

Salvatore Arico The Marine and Coastal Environment and its Values

27. Ecosystem Services and New Economic and Social Values

Judith Kildow

28. Marine Leisure and Tourism

Michael Lueck

29. Waste Disposal and Ocean Pollution

Michael Angelidis

30. Marine Nature Conservation

Guiseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara 31. Maritime Heritage Conservation

Juan Luis Alagret

Part 3: The Geography of the Sea

Management Strategies

32. State Maritime Boundaries

Martin Pratt

33. National Jurisdiction Beyond the EEZ/EFZ: the Extended Continental Shelf

Ronan Long

34. The Deep Ocean: Legal and Political Challenges

Tulio Scovazzi

35. Surveying the Sea

R. Wilson

36. Marine Spatial Planning and Ocean Zoning: a Global Overview

Tundi Agardy

37. Marine Protected Areas

Louisa Wood

Regional Developments: Key Maritime Regions

38. Europe, the European Union and the Global Ocean

David Johnson

39. Maritime Boundaries: the Mediterranean Exception

Juan Suarez de Vivero

40. The United States: MSP Federal and State Initiatives

Stephen Olsen

41. The East Asian Seas: Competing National Spheres of Influence

Sam Bateman

Regional Developments: the Developing Periphery

42. Africa: Maritime Policies and Developing Strategies

Francois Odendaal

43. South Pacific and Small Island Developing States

Joeli Veitayaki

44. Polar Ocean Affairs

Klaus Dodds

45. The World Ocean and the Human Future

Hance Smith, Juan Suarez de Vivero and Tundi Agardi

Author Bio

Hance D. Smith is a Reader in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. His main teaching and research interests are in marine geography and in marine resource and environmental management.

Juan L. Suarez de Vivero is a Professor in the Department of Human Geography, University of Seville, Spain. His special interests are social science aspects of fisheries management, integrated coastal zone management and ocean governance.

Tundi S. Agardy is Executive Director of Sound Seas and a consultant based in Massachusetts, USA. Trained as a biologist, she is author of "Ocean Zoning" (Earthscan, 2010).

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Description: Edited by Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suarez de Vivero, Tundi S. Agardy. This comprehensive Handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a...
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