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• Title:The ocean of life : the fate of man and the sea / Callum Roberts.
  
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• Author/Creator:Roberts, Callum.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Viking, 2012.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: CB465 .R62 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Ocean and civilization.
  Ocean--History.
  
• Description:x, 405 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780670023547
  067002354X
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Changing Seas
  1. Four and a Half Billion Years
  2. Food from the Sea
  3. Fewer Fish in the Sea
  4. Winds and Currents
  5. Life on the Move
  6. Rising Tides
  7. Corrosive Seas
  8. Dead Zones and the World's Great Rivers
  9. Unwholesome Waters
  10. Age of Plastic
  11. Not So Silent World
  12. Aliens, Invaders, and the Homogenization of Life
  13. Pestilence and Plague
  14. Mare Incognitum
  15. Ecosystems at Your Service
  pt. 2 Changing Course
  16. Farming the Sea
  17. Great Cleanup
  18. Can We Cool Our Warming World?
  19. New Deal for the Oceans
  20. Life Renewed
  21. Saving the Giants of the Sea
  22. Preparing for the Worst.