Description
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of geo-political conflict of the 20th century, the history of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) illustrates the complexity of international collaboration to tackle environmental resource issues and pursue scientific knowledge. This book is commissioned for the organization's centenary.
Trade Review"A fascinating and extremely captivating book, which covers not only the development if ICES but also the development of fisheries science as a whole."
* Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology *
"A centenary history of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the work is an incisive examination of developments in twentieth-century marine science that also explores meaningful questions for historians of science."
* Journal of the History of Biology *
"An impressive achievement, providing deep, information packed, analytical accounts of the development of international marine science around the North Atlantic..[This book] is unlikely to be superseded for a long time. It provides us with a literate, intellectually sohpisiticated, deeply researched view of an international marine sciences organization—but is equally important in showing the riches available to historians of science outside the conventional bounds of the discipline."
* Annals of Science *
"This definitive account of ICES offers an intriguing view into the role of science in fisheries management advice."
* History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Forging International Science of the Sea, to 1902
A Rising Enterprise, 1902-1927
A Proactive Role within "Bounds Set by Nature," through 1946
Hydrography or Fisheries Hydrography: The Struggle to Link Fish to Their Ocean Environment, to the Mid-1970s
"The Central Problem of the Council, Unravelled": Fisheries Science in the Postwar World, 1946-1964
"Which Master to Serve": Stock Assessment Science and the Growth of a Formal Scientific Advisory Role, 1960s-1980s
"A Natural and Inevitable Task for ICES: the Rise of Environmental Science and Action, 1966 Forward
Framework of Nature
Abbreviations in Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
