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The Land/Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone of West and Central Africa

Author : Salif Diop
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319063874
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book The Land/Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone of West and Central Africa written by Salif Diop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the main focus of this book is on the estuaries, its scope goes well beyond this particular coastal feature. Indeed, the estuary can only be considered as part of the life cycle of the entire river and the marine area it feeds into: an area particularly subject to human and natural pressures. The main estuaries and deltas of West and Central Africa region provide a variety of goods and services to its coastal population. The most important of them are related to critical fish habitat, wood and charcoal from mangroves, as well as space for agriculture, aquaculture, urban development, tourism and transport. Particular emphasis has been made in this book on mangroves that play a significant role in terms of flood control, groundwater replenishment, coastline stabilization and protection against storms. They also retain sediments and nutrients, purify water, and provide critical carbon storage. Such hydrological and ecological functions explain the focus on serving mangrove ecosystems and the nearby communities, which draw significant income from fishing, rice production, tourism, salt extraction and other activities such as harvesting honey and medicinal plants, hence the need for preserving mangrove ecosystems to ensure sustainability of the estuaries and deltas of West and Central Africa region. The book has a foreword by Mr. Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNEP who is stating that credible and up-to-date information is essential for the public at large but more specifically for scientists, researchers, managers, decision-makers all working together in order to safeguard, protect and sustainably manage estuaries, deltas and lagoons, and the coastal and ocean waters of Western and Central Africa.

Land of the Ocean Mists

Author : Francis E. Caldwell
Publisher : ProStar Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781577853497
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Land of the Ocean Mists written by Francis E. Caldwell and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fabulous, seldom-visited Pacific Ocean section of Glacier Bay National Park-a land of historic mysteries, thundering seas and great natural beauty. Includes maps and black-and-white and color photographs.

Pacific Histories

Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113700164X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Histories written by David Armitage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its inhabitants and the lands within and around it over 50,000 years, with special attention to the peoples of Oceania. It providing chronological coverage along with analyses of themes such as the environment, migration and the economy; religion, law and science; race, gender and politics.

Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces

Author : Detlef Stammer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498743463
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces written by Detlef Stammer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satellite remote sensing, in particular by radar altimetry, is a crucial technique for observations of the ocean surface and of many aspects of land surfaces, and of paramount importance for climate and environmental studies. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the satellite altimetry techniques and related missions, and reviews the most-up-to date applications to ocean dynamics and sea level. It also discusses related space-based observations of the ocean surface and of the marine geoid, as well as applications of satellite altimetry to the cryosphere and land surface waters; operational oceanography and its applications to navigation, fishing and defense.

Submerged Lands

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submerged Lands written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Submerged Lands

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Submerged Lands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (82) S.J. Res. 20, (82) S. 940.

Submerged Lands

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Submerged Lands written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Outlaw Ocean

Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451492951
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Outlaw Ocean written by Ian Urbina and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

The Geography of the Ocean

Author : Anne-Flore Laloë
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317030559
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of the Ocean written by Anne-Flore Laloë and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad conceptual and methodological framework to analyse specific events that have contributed to the production of geographical knowledge about the ocean. These include, but are not limited to, Christopher Columbus’ first transatlantic journey, the mapping of nonexistent islands, the establishment of transoceanic trade routes, the discovery of largescale water movements, the HMS Challenger expedition, the search for the elusive Terra Australis Incognita, the formulation of the theory of continental drift and the mapping of the seabed. Using a combination of original, empirical (archival, material and cartographic), and theoretical sources, this book uniquely brings together fascinating narratives throughout history to produce a representation and mapping of geographical oceanic knowledge. It questions how we know what we know about the oceans and how this knowledge is represented and mapped. The book then uses this representation and mapping as a way to coherently trace the evolution of oceanic spatial awareness. In recent years, particularly in historical geography, discovering and knowing the ocean-space has been a completely separate enterprise from discovering and colonising the lands beyond it. There has been such focus on studying colonised lands, yet the oceans between them have been neglected. This book gives the geographical ocean a voice to be acknowledged as a space where history, geography and indeed historical geography took place.

From the Forest to the Sea - Public Lands Management and Marine Spatial Planning

Author : Morgan Gopnik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317745434
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book From the Forest to the Sea - Public Lands Management and Marine Spatial Planning written by Morgan Gopnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty. This book explores the long, complex, and frequently contentious history of public lands management in the United States in order to draw lessons for the emerging field of marine spatial planning (MSP). The author first establishes that these two seemingly different settings are in fact remarkably similar, drawing on established theories of policy analysis. The work then examines the management of US National Forests over the past 120 years, including three place-based case studies, to discover recurring themes. The analysis shows how different management approaches evolved over time in response to changing laws and cultural norms, producing outcomes favored by different constituencies. This history also reveals the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in multiple-use management of any public space. Next, the book analyzes recent efforts to advance MSP, both in the US and globally, showing how they mirror past experiences in National Forest management, including similar disagreements among stakeholders. In conclusion the author suggests how those within ocean-related sectors – government, academia, industry, and environmental groups – might achieve their individual and collective goals more effectively based on lessons from the public lands setting.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feral

Author : George Monbiot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620555X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Feral written by George Monbiot and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."

Coccolithophores

Author : Hans R. Thierstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 366206278X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Coccolithophores written by Hans R. Thierstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to one of the most common phytoplankton types provides broad coverage from molecular and cellular biology all the way to its impact on the global carbon cycle and climate. Individual chapters focus on coccolithophore biology, ecology, evolutionary phylogeny and impact on current and past global changes. The book addresses fundamental questions about the interaction between the biota and the environment at various temporal and spatial scales.

Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309255945
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating. As Earth warms, sea levels are rising mainly because ocean water expands as it warms; and water from melting glaciers and ice sheets is flowing into the ocean. Sea-level rise poses enormous risks to the valuable infrastructure, development, and wetlands that line much of the 1,600 mile shoreline of California, Oregon, and Washington. As those states seek to incorporate projections of sea-level rise into coastal planning, they asked the National Research Council to make independent projections of sea-level rise along their coasts for the years 2030, 2050, and 2100, taking into account regional factors that affect sea level. Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future explains that sea level along the U.S. west coast is affected by a number of factors. These include: climate patterns such as the El Niño, effects from the melting of modern and ancient ice sheets, and geologic processes, such as plate tectonics. Regional projections for California, Oregon, and Washington show a sharp distinction at Cape Mendocino in northern California. South of that point, sea-level rise is expected to be very close to global projections. However, projections are lower north of Cape Mendocino because the land is being pushed upward as the ocean plate moves under the continental plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. However, an earthquake magnitude 8 or larger, which occurs in the region every few hundred to 1,000 years, would cause the land to drop and sea level to suddenly rise.

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 2182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lands of Silence

Author : Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher : Cambridge : The University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Lands of Silence written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge : The University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lands of Silence, A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration by Clements Robert Markham, first published in 1921, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.