ABSTRACT
This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes. The underlying approach is geographical, with prominence given to the biosphere, political arrangements and regional patterns – all considered to be especially crucial to the human understanding required for the use and management of the world's oceans.
Part one addresses key themes in our knowledge of relationships between people and the sea on a global scale, including economic and political issues, and understanding and managing marine environments. Part two provides a systematic review of the uses of the sea, grouped into food, ocean space, materials and energy, and the sea as an environmental resource. Part three on the geography of the sea considers management strategies especially related to the state system, and regional management developments in both core economic regions and the developing periphery.
Chapter 23 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203115398.ch23 ;
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|197 pages
The world ocean
part |56 pages
Understanding marine environments
chapter 6|19 pages
Blue Planet
chapter 8|16 pages
Marine Scientific Research
part |69 pages
Managing marine environments
part 2|209 pages
The uses of the sea
part |62 pages
Energy and materials
part |50 pages
Ocean space
part |43 pages
The marine environment
part 3|176 pages
The geography of the sea
part |45 pages
Regional developments: key core maritime regions
chapter 33|17 pages
Marine Spatial Planning in the United States
part |60 pages
Regional developments: the developing periphery