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      Oceans book

      Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives

      Oceans

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      Oceans book

      Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives
      ByJames Fargo Balliett
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 22 December 2014
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315702049
      Pages 168
      eBook ISBN 9781315702049
      Subjects Bioscience, Earth Sciences, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Geography
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      Balliett, J.F. (2010). Oceans: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315702049

      ABSTRACT

      Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. This book explains how our oceans continue to support and influence life in important ways: by providing the largest global source of protein in the form of fish populations, by creating and influencing weather systems, and by absorbing waste streams such as airborne carbon. It is shown how oceans have an almost magnetic draw—almost half of the world’s population lives within a few hours of an ocean. Although oceans are vast in size, exceeding 328 million cubic miles (1.37 billion cubic kilometers), they have been influenced by and have influenced humans in numerous ways.

      The book includes three detailed case studies. The first focuses on the most remote locations along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where new ocean floor is being formed twenty-thousand feet underwater. The second considers the Maldives, a string of islands in the Indian Ocean, where increasing sea levels may force residents to abandon some communities by 2020. The third describes the North Sea at the edge of the Arctic Ocean, where fishing stocks have been dangerously depleted as a result of multiple nations’ unrelenting removal of the smallest and largest species.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I. Introduction to Oceans

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Oceans Around Us

      chapter 2|12 pages

      Humans and Oceans

      chapter 3|10 pages

      Ocean Locations

      part |1 pages

      Part II. Oceans of the World: Case Studies

      chapter |3 pages

      Map of Case Studies

      chapter 4|8 pages

      Gulf of Alaska, Pacific Ocean

      chapter 5|8 pages

      Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Atlantic Ocean

      chapter 6|8 pages

      Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean

      chapter 8|10 pages

      North Sea, Atlantic Ocean

      chapter 9|8 pages

      Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount, Pacific Ocean

      chapter 10|8 pages

      Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean

      part |2 pages

      Part III. Oceans Conclusion

      chapter 11|8 pages

      State of the Oceans

      chapter 12|10 pages

      Future of the Oceans

      chapter |7 pages

      Glossary

      chapter |2 pages

      Selected Web Sites

      chapter |4 pages

      Further Reading

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