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Fisheries resources are an important component of natural resources. It is an important source of high-quality animal protein and food for humans, which provides employment, economic benefits and social welfare for people engaged in fishing activities. It also has played an important role in food safety, economic development, and foreign trade. Fisheries resources economics is an important branch of both applied economics and resource economics. Its research object is fishery resources and its economic problems. The economics of fishery resources is to focus on the relationship between the demand for human economic activities and the supply of fishery resources, as well as between fishery resources and its development. This book expounds the reasons for the economic problems of fishery resources and the theoretical principles for solving them, so as to reveal the objective rules of the allocation of fishery resources in different regions and at different times, to coordinate the relationship between the utilization of fishery resources and economic development, and to realize the sustainable development of fishery economy. This book will also provide learning materials for undergraduates, graduate students and practitioners engaged in fishery resources development and scientific management.

Wildlife. --- Fish. --- Aquatic ecology . --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Animal ecology. --- Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Aquatic biology --- Fish --- Pisces --- Aquatic animals --- Vertebrates --- Fisheries --- Fishing --- Ichthyology --- Fishery resources. --- Fish resources --- Fisheries resources --- Aquatic resources --- Wildlife resources

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This handbook is the first of its kind to provide a clear, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the most important scientific and management topics in marine environmental protection. Leading experts discuss the latest perspectives and best practices in the field with a particular focus on the functioning of marine ecosystems, natural processes, and anthropogenic pressures. The book familiarizes readers with the intricacies and challenges of managing coasts and oceans more sustainably, and guides them through the maze of concepts and strategies, laws and policies, and the various actors that define our ability to manage marine activities. Providing valuable thematic insights into marine management to inspire thoughtful application and further study, it is essential reading for marine environmental scientists, policy-makers, lawyers, practitioners and anyone interested in the field.

Marine resources conservation --- Environment. --- International environmental law. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Environmental sociology. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Environmental Sociology. --- International Environmental Law. --- Conservation of marine resources --- Marine conservation --- Marine environmental protection --- Marine protection --- Aquatic resources conservation --- Marine pollution --- Marine Sciences. --- Environmental sciences --- Environmentalism --- Sociology --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Social aspects --- International environmental law --- International law --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water --- Water. --- Hydrology. --- Environmental law, International. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Social aspects. --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Hydrology

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This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world’s coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as “Natural World Heritage Sites”. Representing well-preserved areas of exceptional significance to the planet and to humankind, they include a total of 49 marine sites, formed by reefs, atolls and gulfs, and 35 coastal sites in all oceans and all continents with exception of Antarctica. They are being protected and preserved from most degrading uses for future generations as an important legacy from the past. Exploring their richness, this book analyzes and explains these sites in a clear, understandable, scientific way, and is of interest to all who work in or care about the geosciences, environmental sciences and biosciences.

World Heritage areas. --- Coastal archaeology. --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Marine Sciences. --- Coastal Sciences. --- Geomorphology. --- Ecosystems. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions). --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Coasts. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Physical geography. --- Geography --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Seashore

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Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life. Based on the content of the bestselling and CHOICE-awarded Encyclopedia of Natural Resources, this new edition demonstrates the major challenges that the society is facing for the sustainability of all well-being on the planet Earth. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying natural resources are presented in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the main systems of land, water, and air. It reviews state-of-the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of remote sensing and geospatial data with field-based measurements in the study of natural resources. Volume 4, Fresh Water and Watersheds, covers fresh water and watersheds, their health and conservation, protection, and management. Organized for ease of reference, it provides fundamental information on groundwater storage, water quality, supply and balance, and water resource vulnerability. New in this edition are discussions on water footprint assessment, water surface dynamics, and water management on a global scale. Understanding the conditions of watersheds is crucial for restoring areas with degraded water quality as well as protecting healthy waters from emerging problems. This volume demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used through several practical case studies from around the world. Written in an easy-to-reference manner, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, as individual volumes or as a complete set, is an essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the science and management of natural resources. Public and private libraries, educational and research institutions, scientists, scholars, and resource managers will benefit enormously from this set. Individual volumes and chapters can also be used in a wide variety of both graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental science and natural science at different levels and disciplines, such as biology, geography, earth system science, and ecology.

Fresh water. --- Natural resources. --- Watersheds. --- Basins, Drainage --- Basins, Lake --- Basins, River --- Basins, Water (Watersheds) --- Catchment areas --- Catchment basins --- Catchments (Watersheds) --- Drainage areas --- Drainage basins --- Drainage systems (Watersheds) --- Drainages (Watersheds) --- Lake basins --- River basins --- River catchments --- River systems --- Systems, River --- Water basins (Watersheds) --- Water catchments --- Landforms --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water --- Economic aspects

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The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America’s greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In part to protect the Great Lakes from overzealous entrepreneurship, the Great Lakes Compact was signed in 2008. Although the Compact fulfills that promise and ensures that Great Lakes water stays within the Basin, some would say it has only shifted the controversy closer to home. Now water diversion controversies of a different kind are some of the most fought-over environmental issues in the region. Will the water wars ever be settled? Journalist Peter Annin delves deeply into the fraught history of water use in the Great Lakes region and recaps the story of the Chicago River diversion, which reversed the flow of the river, fundamentally transforming the Great Lakes ecosystem. A century later it remains “the poster child of bad behavior in the Great Lakes.” Today, with growing communities and a warming climate, tensions over water use are high, and controversies on the perimeter of the Great Lakes Basin are on the rise. In this new and expanded edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars, Annin shares the stories of New Berlin and Waukesha, two Wisconsin communities straddling the Basin boundary whose recent legal battles have tested the legislative strength of the newly signed Compact. Annin devotes a new chapter to the volatile issue of the invasive Asian carp—a voracious species that reproduces at a disturbing rate—which is transforming the ecology of the river as it makes its way through the Chicago River diversion and ever closer to Lake Michigan. With three new chapters and significant revisions to existing chapters that bring the story up-to-date over the past decade, this is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of the people and stories behind hard-fought battles to protect this precious resource that makes the region so special for the millions who call it home. .

Water resources development --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Marine Sciences. --- Environmental management. --- Conservation biology. --- Environmental policy. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Environmental Management. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Environmental Politics. --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Government policy --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Ecology . --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water