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Book SynopsisProvides a blueprint for managing the challenges of ocean conservation using marine historical ecology an interdisciplinary area of study that is helping society to gain a more understanding of past human-environmental interactions in coastal and marine ecosystems and of the ecological and social outcomes associated with these interactions.
Trade Review"This well- edited text is a very good introduction to the value of historical information to research and planning." -- S. R. Fegley CHOICE "Wide-ranging and highly informative." The Quarterly Review of Biology
Table of ContentsChapter Contributors Viewpoint Contributors Foreword (Daniel Pauly) Acknowledgments 1. Managing Human Legacies in a Changing Sea: An Introduction (John N. Kittinger, Louise K. Blight, Keryn B. Gedan, and Loren McClenachan) PART I. Recovering Endangered Species (Lead Section Editor: Louise K. Blight) 2. What Recovery of Exploited Marine Animals Tells Us about Management and Conservation (Heike K. Lotze) 3. Natural or Anthropogenic? Novel Community Reassembly after Historical Overharvest of Pacific Coast Pinnipeds (Jon M. Erlandson, Todd J. Braje, Robert L. DeLong, and Torben C. Rick) 4. Using Disparate Datasets to Reconstruct Historical Baselines of Animal Populations (Francesco Ferretti, Larry B. Crowder, and Fiorenza Micheli) PART II. Conserving Fisheries (Lead Section Editor: John N. Kittinger) 5. Improving Fisheries Assessments Using Historical Data: Stock Status and Catch Limits (Alan M. Friedlander, Joshua Nowlis, and Haruko Koike) 6. Understanding Fisheries through Historical Reconstructions: Implications for Fishery Management and Policy (Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak, Dirk Zeller, and Daniel Pauly) 7. Back to the Future: Integrating Customary Practices and Institutions into Comanagement of Small-scale Fisheries (John N. Kittinger, Joshua E. Cinner, Shankar Aswani, and Alan T. White) PART III. Restoring Ecosystems (Lead Section Editor: Keryn B. Gedan) 8. Historical Information for Ecological Restoration in Estuaries and Coastal Ecosystems (Keryn B. Gedan, Denise L. Breitburg, Robin M. Grossinger, and Torben C. Rick) 9. Estimates of Historical Ecosystem Service Provision Can Guide Restoration Efforts (Philine S. E. zu Ermgassen, Mark D. Spalding, and Robert D. Brumbaugh) 10. Incorporating Historical Perspectives into Systematic Marine Conservation Planning (Natalie C. Ban, John N. Kittinger, John M. Pandolfi, Robert L. Pressey, Ruth H. Thurstan, Matthew J. Lybolt, and Simon Hart) PART IV. Engaging the Public (Lead Section Editor: Loren McClenachan) 11. Engaging Public Interest in the Ocean of the Past: The Promise of New Media (Catherine Marzin, Sian Evans, and Karen Alexander) 12. Choice without Memory: Uncovering the Narrative Potential of Historical Ecology (J. B. MacKinnon) Index
