Overview
- First book to systematically assess the comparative performance of the 200-mile exclusive economic zone
- In-depth country-bases case studies of oceans policy development and implementation
- Authors provide multiple and diverse disciplinary insights into governance of marine living resources
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A Sea Change in a Changing Sea The oceans, seas and coastal areas encompass over 70% of the earth’s surface. They are a critical driver of the earth’s hydrologic cycle and climate system, important for c- merce, transport, and tourism, a source of economically important living marine resources, minerals such as hydrocarbons, as well as new pharmaceutical compounds. The marine environment provides essential habitats for thousands of marine living 1 2 resources, which in turn contribute significantly to global food security, employment, 3 and trade. Overall, the sea’s contribution to human welfare, in terms of market and non-market resources and environmental services, has been estimated at US$21 trillion/year (Costanza, 2000). However, despite the importance of the ocean realm to humans, there is a growing sense that human impacts are destabilizing this system. Some experts believe that current fishing levels are approaching or exceeding the total 4 productivity of the ocean ecosystem (National Research Council, 1999).
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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National Strategies for EEZ Implementation
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Regional Strategies for Coordinating the EEZ Regime
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A Changing Sea: New and Emerging Institutional Directions for the EEZ
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Sea Change: The Exclusive Economic Zone and Governance Institutions for Living Marine Resources
Editors: Syma A. Ebbin, Alf Håkon Hoel, Are K. Sydnes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3133-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3132-8Published: 07 January 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6803-3Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3133-5Published: 07 June 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 224
Topics: Environmental Economics, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Environmental Management, Social Sciences, general, Political Science