Sustainable ocean governance : a geographical perspective /
This topical book examines ocean governance and calls for close co-operation between science and policy. Adalberto Vallega uniquely considers the ocean as a spatial complex system which must be represented as a whole and argues that scientific approaches must change to achieve progress and co-operat...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Series: | Ocean management and policy series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Science and policy facing the ocean
- A profound watershed in the role of the ocean
- Modern society and the challenge of the ocean
- The post-modern scientific approach
- Science for post-modern visions
- The ocean and Agenda 21
- The ocean ecosystem: the abiotic component
- Global change and the ocean ecosystem
- Impacts from plate tectonics
- Role of continental margins
- Ocean governance in relation to plates and margins
- Impacts from the water column
- Atmosphere--ocean interaction: waves
- Atmosphere--ocean interaction: wind-driven ocean circulation
- A special issue: El Nino
- Conclusion: the hydrological cycle
- The ocean ecosystem as the focus of governance
- The ocean ecosystem
- Focus on biocenosis
- The ecosystem's properties
- Classifying ecosystems
- Geographical scales of ocean ecosystems
- Legal frameworks and management patterns
- Zoning the ocean ecosystem
- Legal and jurisdictional frameworks
- A leading chain of impacts
- Legal background
- Setting of the legal framework
- Geographical coverage: an overview
- Maritime jurisdictional context
- The ocean under international regime
- Zoning the ocean: the legal inputs
- Coastal area and deep-ocean: defining the boundaries
- Governance patterns: the coastal area
- Governance patterns: the deep-ocean
- Governance patterns: the regional seas
- The role of ocean resources
- A resource reservoir
- Development of ocean uses
- Science in relation to ocean exploitation
- Key ocean uses
- A geographical view.
