5 easy pieces : how fishing impacts marine ecosystems /
5 Easy Pieces features five contributions, originally published in Nature and Science, demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these articles illustrate a transition in scientific thought...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | State of the world's oceans series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Primary Production Required.
- A Summer in Manila
- Primary Production Required to Sustain Global Fisheries
- A Response and a Tedious Rejoinder
- The World According to Pimm
- Coverage by the Mass Media
- A Large Fermi Solution
- Fishing Down the Food Web.
- Another Summer in Manila
- Fishing Down Marine Food Webs
- FAO's Comments and Rejoinder
- The CBD and its "Marine Trophic Index"
- The Jellyfish Sandwich
- China and the World's Fisheries.
- Spring in Vancouver Island
- Systematic Distortion in World Fisheries Catch Trends
- The Economist, the FAO, and the World
- Chinese Responses
- The Media, or How Everyone Likes a Different Sauce
- Sustainability.
- What Is Sustainability, Anyway?
- Towards Sustainability in Global Fisheries
- Future of Fisheries.
- Stepping into the Future
- The Future of Fisheries
- The Future Revisited
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: The Origins of the 100 Million Tonnes Myth
- Appendix 2: Rejoinder : Response to Caddy et al.
- Appendix 3: Post-1998 Studies of "Fishing Down."