Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived--above, within, and on the shores of America's ancient inland sea.
Автор: Li, Xiaofeng Название: Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Oceans ISBN: 036757084X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367570842 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in Okinawa shaped by a “conservation-near” approach-which draws on the senses, the body, and memory to collapse the distance between people and their surroundings and to foster collaboration and equity between coastal residents and transnational conservation organizations. This approach contrasts with the traditional Western “conservation-far” model premised on the separation of humans from the environment.Based on twenty months of participant observation and interviews, this richly detailed, engagingly written ethnography focuses on Okinawa’s coral reefs to explore an unusually inclusive, experiential, and socially just approach to conservation. In doing so, C. Anne Claus challenges orthodox assumptions about nature, wilderness, and the future of environmentalism within transnational organizations. She provides a compelling look at how transnational conservation organizations-in this case a field office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Okinawa-negotiate institutional expectations for conservation with localized approaches to caring for ocean life. In pursuing how particular projects off the coast of Japan unfolded, Drawing the Sea Near illuminates the real challenges and possibilities of work within the multifaceted transnational structures of global conservation organizations. Uniquely, it focuses on the conservationists themselves: why and how has their approach to project work changed, and how have they themselves been transformed in the process?
Автор: Wright Deborah Rowan Название: Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World`s Oceans ISBN: 022654267X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226542676 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans--and a call to understand and enforce those protections. The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop their decline and better protect the sea and marine life. Such widespread environmental threats call for a simple but significant shift in reasoning to bring about long-overdue, elemental change in the way we use ocean resources. In Future Sea, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Rowan Wright provides the tools for that shift. Questioning the underlying philosophy of established ocean conservation approaches, Rowan Wright lays out a radical alternative: a bold and far-reaching strategy of 100 percent ocean protection that would put an end to destructive industrial activities, better safeguard marine biodiversity, and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive along coasts and in seas around the globe. Future Sea is essentially concerned with the solutions and not the problems. Rowan Wright shines a light on existing international laws intended to keep marine environments safe that could underpin this new strategy. She gathers inspiring stories of communities and countries using ocean resources wisely, as well as of successful conservation projects, to build up a cautiously optimistic picture of the future for our oceans--counteracting all-too-prevalent reports of doom and gloom. A passionate, sweeping, and personal account, Future Sea not only argues for systemic change in how we manage what we do in the sea but also describes steps that anyone, from children to political leaders (or indeed, any reader of the book), can take toward safeguarding the oceans and their extraordinary wildlife.
Автор: Pokazeev Konstantin, Sovga Elena, Chaplina Tatiana Название: Pollution in the Black Sea: Observations about the Ocean`s Pollution ISBN: 3030618943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030618940 Издательство: Springer Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
INTRODUCTION.
Chapter 1. CONCEPTION ON THE WORLD OCEAN POLLUTION
1.1. CONCEPTS OF POLLUTION AND POLLUTANTS AND THEIR NATURE (NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES OF POLLUTION OF THE WORLD OCEAN).
1.2. CURRENT PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD OCEAN POLLUTION BY MICROPLASTIC.
1.3. CURRENT PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD OCEAN POLLUTION BY OIL AND OIL PRODUCTS.
1.4. MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND FEATURES OF THEIR FUNCTIONING.
1.5. CURRENT INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND CONVENTIONS REDUCING THE WORLD OCEAN POLLUTION LEVEL.
Chapter 2. PROBLEMS OF POLLUTION OF INLAND SEAS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE BLACK SEA.
2.1. OCEANOGRAPHIC FEATURE OF THE BLACK SEA.
2.2. HYDROPHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL FEATURES OF THE BLACK SEA AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON POLLUTANT TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE SEA.
2.3. BIOTIC PARAMETERS (MACROPLANKTON) OF THE BLACK SEA.
2.4 BASIC NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES OF POLLUTION OF THE BLACK SEA AND ITS SHELF AND SHALLOW WATER.
2.5. CURRENT METHODS TO EVALUATE SELF-PURIFICATION OF MARINE ECOSYSTEMS OF SHALLOW WATER AREAS IN THE BLACK SEA: PORTS, BAYS, LIMANES.
2.6. MODERN METHODS AND FACILITIES OF LIQUIDATION OIL SPILL IN THE OCEAN
Chapter 3. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING, ITS MAIN TYPES AND ROLE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF SEAS AND OCEANS POLLUTION.
3.1. TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING DEPENDING ON THE OBSERVATION COVERAGE, THEIR PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES.
3.1.1. WORLDWIDE MONITORING;
3.1.2. REGIONAL MONITORING;
3.1.3. LOCAL MONITORING;
3.2. TYPES OF ECOLOGICAL MONITORING DEPENDING ON THE ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT LEVEL.
3.2.1 IMPACT MONITORING;
3.2.2 BACKGROUND MONITORING;
3.3. ARRANGMENT OF ECOLOGICAL MONITORING OF SEA WATER AREAS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE BLACK SEA.
3.4. MODERN METHODS AND MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL MONITORING OF OCEANS AND SEAS.
CONCLUSION
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Название: Marine extremes ISBN: 0367662760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367662769 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing upon principles from the natural and social sciences this book provides as interdisciplinary overview of Marine Extremes, assessing the impacts of them on communities and infrastructure as well as for marine ecosystems.
Описание: The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. To a casual observer standing on the shore, the vast current betrays no discernible signs, yet life abounds just over the horizon. Stan Ulanski takes us into the water on a journey through this magnificent, unique marine ecosystem, illuminating the scientific and biological marvels and the astonishing array of flora and fauna streaming along our Pacific coast.
The waters of the California Current yield a complex broth of planktonic organisms that form the base of an elaborate food web that many naturalists have compared to the species-rich Serengeti ecosystem of Africa. Every year, turtles, seals, fish, and seabirds travel great distances to feast in the current's distinct biological oases and feeding sites. Apex predators, such as the California gray whale, humpback whale, salmon shark, and bluefin tuna, undertake extensive north-south migrations within the current to find enough to eat. The California Current energizes us to celebrate and protect a marine ecosystem integral to the myriad fisheries, coastal communities, and cultures of the Pacific coast.
Автор: Eric Paul Roorda Название: The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics ISBN: 1478006005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006008 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15669.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader charts humans' relationship to the Ocean, which has often been seen as a changeless space without a history. It collects familiar, forgotten, and previously unpublished texts from all corners of the world. Spanning antiquity to the present, the volume's selections cover myriad topics including the slave trade, explorers from China and the Middle East, shipwrecks and castaways, Caribbean and Somali pirates, battles and U-boats, narratives of the Ocean's origins, and the devastating effects of climate change. Containing gems of maritime writing ranging from myth, memoir, poetry, and scientific research to journalism, song lyrics, and scholarly writing, The Ocean Reader is the essential guide for all those wanting to understand the complex and long history of the Ocean that covers over 70 percent of the planet.
Автор: Irus Braverman, Elizabeth R. Johnson Название: Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea ISBN: 1478005920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005926 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The ocean and its inhabitants sketch and stretch our understandings of law in unexpected ways. Inspired by the blue turn in the social sciences and humanities, Blue Legalities explores how regulatory frameworks and governmental infrastructures are made, reworked, and contested in the oceans. Its interdisciplinary contributors analyze topics that range from militarization and Maori cosmologies to island building in the South China Sea and underwater robotics. Throughout, Blue Legalities illuminates the vast and unusual challenges associated with regulating the turbulent materialities and lives of the sea. Offering much more than an analysis of legal frameworks, the chapters in this volume show how the more-than-human ocean is central to the construction of terrestrial institutions and modes of governance. By thinking with the more-than-human ocean, Blue Legalities questions what we think we know—and what we don’t know—about oceans, our earthly planet, and ourselves.
Contributors. Stacy Alaimo, Amy Braun, Irus Braverman, Holly Jean Buck, Jennifer L. Gaynor, Stefan Helmreich, Elizabeth R. Johnson, Stephanie Jones, Zsofia Korosy, Berit Kristoffersen, Jessica Lehman, Astrida Neimanis, Susan Reid, Alison Rieser, Katherine G. Sammler, Astrid Schrader, Kristen L. Shake, Phil Steinberg
Автор: Cheng, Ya-hui Название: Transdisciplinary marine research ISBN: 1032317604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032317601 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Drawing on the expertise of marine researchers from both the natural and social sciences, this book examines how we, as both scientists and societies, can return to a sustainable co-existence with the ocean and use the tools of transdisciplinarity to bring together the diverse forms of knowledge needed to achieve this important task.
Автор: Ciarlet, Philippe G. Название: Computational Methods For The Atmosphere And The Oceans,14 ISBN: 0444518932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780444518934 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 23580.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents a survey of the frontiers of research in the numerical modeling and mathematical analysis used in the study of the atmosphere and oceans. This book uses the approach of computational mathematicians, applied and numerical analysts and the tools appropriate for unsolved problems in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Автор: Balliett Название: Oceans ISBN: 076568229X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765682291 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covering 71 percent of the planet, oceans provided the unique environmental conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago and continue to support life in important ways today.
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