ABSTRACT

Much has been written over the years about repairing various components of the terrestrial ecosystems, including whole landscapes, whereas comparatively little has been written about repairing the oceans until relatively recently. And, virtually nothing has been done to work simultaneously in understanding or resolving the increasingly broken land-ocean connection. It is therefore the purpose of this chapter to begin to remedy that oversight, with the final example focused on the maritime portion of the land-ocean system because it is the least-understood part of the reciprocal terrestrial-marine feedback loop.