Oceans 2020 : science, trends, and the challenge of sustainability /

Contains a collection of essays analyzing the state of the world's oceans and identifying key issues for sustainable development.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, International Council for Science. Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, International Council for Science. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
Other Authors:	Field, J. G., Hempel, Gotthilf, Summerhayes, C. P.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2002.
Subjects:	UN Conference on Environment and Development > (1992 : > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) UN Conference on the Law of the Sea. Marine sciences > Research.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

The coastal zone: an ecosystem under pressure / Han Lindeboom
Climate change and the ocean / Gerald R. North, Robert A. Duce
Fisheries and fisheries science in their search for sustainability / Gotthilf Hempel, Daniel Pauly
Ocean studies for offshore industry / Colin P. Summerhayes, Karin Lochte
Marine information for shipping and defense / David P. Rogers, Mary G. Altalo, Richard W. Spinrad
Operational oceanography / Colin P. Summerhayes, Ralph Rayner
A vision of oceanographic instrumentation and technologies in the early twenty-first century / Tommy D. Dickey
Framework of cooperation / Geoffrey Holland, Patricio Bernal
Capacity building / Miguel Fortes, Gotthilf Hempel
The vision to 2020 / John G. Field, Colin P. Summerhayes, Gotthilf Hempel.

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