Marine Conservation: Science Policy and Management

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Providing a guide for marine conservation practice Marine Conservation takes a whole-systems approach covering major advances in marine ecosystem understanding. Its premise is that conservation must be informed by the natural histories of organisms together with the hierarchy of scale-related linkages and ecosystem processes. The authors introduce a broad range of overlapping issues and the conservation mechanisms that have been devised to achieve marine conservation goals. The book provides students and conservation practitioners with a framework for thoughtful critical thinking in order to incite innovation in the 21st century. "Marine Conservation presents a scholarly but eminently readable case for the necessity of a systems approach to conserving the oceans combining superb introductions to the science law and policy frameworks with carefully chosen case studies. This superb volume is a must for anyone interested in marine conservation from students and practitioners to lay readers and policy-makers." Simon Levin George M. Moffett Professor of Biology Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Princeton University