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The Atlas of Coasts and Oceans
Mapping Ecosystems, Threatened Resources and Marine Conservation
Series: The Earthscan Atlas
This unique assessment of the world's coasts and oceans details the ecological, environmental and economic importance of each and the global challenges we face to manage common waters and the resources they contain before development threatens to destroy the ultimate source of all life on the 'blue...
Published May 12th 2011 by Routledge
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Our Common Seas
Coasts in Crisis
Series: Natural Resource Management Set
Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial...
Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge