Oceans : the threats to our seas and what you can do to turn the tide : a participant media guide
Title:
Oceans : the threats to our seas and what you can do to turn the tide : a participant media guide
Author:
Bowermaster, Jon, 1954- edt
ISBN:
9781586488307
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : PublicAffairs, 2010
Physical Description:
xiii, 319 p. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: Where blue meets blue: trouble on the horizon / Jon Bowermaster -- On making Oceans / an interview with filmmaker Jacques Perrin -- The world is blue / Sylvia Earle -- Caught in the same net: the ocean and us / Carl Safina -- Remember the ocean / Ce?line Cousteau -- Illuminating the life of the deep / Edith A Widder -- Sea-struck / Liz Clark -- One stroke at a time / Roz Savage -- Climate change and the ocean / An interview with President Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives -- Plastic ocean: our oceans are turning into plastic-- are we? / Susan Casey -- Message in a bottle: adventures aboard the Plastiki / David de Rothschild -- Barging down to the sea: farming the ocean without regret? / Brad Matsen -- Acid test / Lisa Suatoni -- Coral reefs in crisis / Abigail Alling -- Estuaries, where human and nature meet / John Cronin -- Reasons to worry about the dead zones / Wilma Subra -- For the love of fishes / Tierney Thys -- Whither whales and dolphins? / Naomi A. Rose -- Of dolphins and decency / Richard O’Barry -- Delita: heart of a revolution / Wallace J. Nichols with Andy Myers -- The bluefin’s uncertain future / Richard Ellis -- Open ocean: coming fights over the Arctic / Lynne Cox -- Antarctica on the edge: the future of the southern ocean / John Bowermaster -- Water planet / Leonard DiCaprio -- Stories from a blue planet / Alexandra Cousteau -- Why we need a national ocean policy / Christopher Mann -- A holistic approach to healing the ocean / An interview with NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco -- The future of fish / Callum Roberts -- The whale hunter’s hunter / An interview with Captain Paul Watson -- Saving the whales again! / Jeff Pantukhoff with Pierce Brosnan and Hayden Panettiere -- Fish without a doubt / Chef Rick Moonen -- You’ve got to get wet / Christopher Swain -- What you can do.
Abstract:
Presents a collection of essays by leading experts examining the current condition of the world’s oceans and their inhabitants and emphasizing the need to preserve them from the threat of pollution, overfishing, dead zones, and global warming.
Subject:
| Marine resources conservation |
| Ocean -- Environmental aspects |
| Oceanography |
| Marine biology |
Summary:
Presents a collection of essays by leading experts examining the current condition of the world’s oceans and their inhabitants and emphasizing the need to preserve them from the threat of pollution, overfishing, dead zones, and global warming.