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Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries: An Evolving Perspective
Andrea Belgrano
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Description for Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries: An Evolving Perspective
hardcover. Illustrates how macroecological patterns can be used to develop more effective and holistic management strategies for marine fisheries. Editor(s): Belgrano, Andrea; Fowler, Charles W. Num Pages: 402 pages, 73 b/w illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: PSAF; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 180 x 24. Weight in Grams: 936.
Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores not only the current practice of the 'ecosystem approach' to fisheries management but also its critical importance to even larger perspectives. The first section gives a valuable overview of how more and more of the complexity of real-world systems is being recognized and involved in the management of fisheries around the world. The second section then demonstrates how important aspects of real-world systems, involving population dynamics, evolution and behavior, remain to be taken ... Read more
Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores not only the current practice of the 'ecosystem approach' to fisheries management but also its critical importance to even larger perspectives. The first section gives a valuable overview of how more and more of the complexity of real-world systems is being recognized and involved in the management of fisheries around the world. The second section then demonstrates how important aspects of real-world systems, involving population dynamics, evolution and behavior, remain to be taken ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521519816
SKU
V9780521519816
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-10
About Andrea Belgrano
Andrea Belgrano is a Senior Scientist with the Swedish Board of Fisheries' Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil, Sweden. His research deals with applying concepts of macroecology, food web dynamics and complex systems theory, mainly to marine systems and fisheries management. Charles W. Fowler is Leader of the Systemic Management Studies Program at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory of the Alaska ... Read more
Reviews for Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries: An Evolving Perspective
'… this book demonstrates that EA [ecosystem approaches] can be tools for greater understanding and better management of fisheries and the ecosystems that nurture them. The various chapters … do an excellent job of pointing out, for the ecosystems they document, which component, judiciously chosen, would lead to improved fisheries management and ecosystem resilience. This approach makes the book … ... Read more