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  Title

  The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea

  Author

  Roberts, Callum.  

  Publisher:

  Viking,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  x, 405 p., [16] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  9780670023547

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    CB465 .R62 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf
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    CB465 .R62 2012	1	Book	Material has been checked/charged out

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  ISBN:

  9780670023547

  ISBN:

  067002354X

  Personal Author:

  Roberts, Callum.

  Title:

  The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea / Callum Roberts.

  Publication info:

  New York : Viking, 2012.

  Physical description:

  x, 405 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Changing seas. Four and a half billion years ; Food from the sea ; Fewer fish in the sea ; Winds and currents ; Life on the move ; Rising tides ; Corrosive seas ; Dead zones and the world's great rivers ; Unwholesome waters ; The age of plastic ; The not so silent world ; Aliens, invaders, and the homogenization of life ; Pestilence and plague ; Mare incognitum ; Ecosystems at your service -- Changing course. Farming the sea ; The great cleanup ; Can we cool our warming world? ; A new deal for the oceans ; Life renewed ; Saving the giants of the sea ; Preparing for the worst ; Epilogue : the sea ahead -- Appendix 1. Seafood with a clear conscience -- Appendix 2. Conservation charities working to protect ocean life.

  Summary:

  Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time.

  Held by:

  TODD AURORA

  Subject term:

  Ocean and civilization.

  Subject term:

  Ocean--History.

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