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Marine sediments --- Oceanography --- Eelgrass --- Habitat

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This book explores the nature of marine conservation based on the case study of Hinase, a fishing village in Okayama, Japan. It focuses on the fishers self-motivated eelgrass restoration activity which has been continued for more than 30 years. This activity in Hinase recently attracted international attention as a case under the name Satoumi and Marine Protected Areas in several governmental reports, but detailed information, such as the historical background and social structure of Hinase, has not yet been analyzed. This book, therefore, fulfills this gap by providing its ethnographic information. In addition, this book offers some points for critical thinking by concluding that marine conservation activities cannot always be evaluated or arranged under the standardized approach with limited time and space. This viewpoint reaffirms the importance of local initiative and highlights the value of qualitative research to seek the way forward for promising marine conservation. This book is suitable for an academic audience in the field of social sciences, such as applied anthropology, as well as ecologists, government officials, environmentalists, and citizens who are interested or engaged in environmental issues or natural resource management.

Eelgrass. --- Marine resources conservation. --- Conservation of marine resources --- Marine conservation --- Marine environmental protection --- Marine protection --- Aquatic resources conservation --- Marine pollution --- Eelgrasses --- Zostera --- Zosteraceae --- Eelgrass --- Marine resources conservation

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This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks, and millions of waterbirds. Written in an entertaining style for a wide audience, Natural History of San Francisco Bay delves into an array of topics including fish and wildlife, ocean and climate cycles, endangered and invasive species, and the path from industrialization to environmental restoration. More than sixty scientists, activists, and resource managers share their views and describe their work-tracing mercury through the aquatic ecosystem, finding ways to convert salt ponds back to tidal wetlands, anticipating the repercussions of climate change, and more. Fully illustrated and packed with stories, "es, and facts, the guide also tells how San Francisco Bay sparked an environmental movement that now reaches across the country.

Estuarine ecology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Restoration ecology --- activists. --- aquatic ecosystem. --- bay area. --- biodiversity. --- bodies of water. --- california history. --- california. --- climate change. --- climate cycles. --- eelgrass beds. --- endangered species. --- environmental movement. --- environmentalists. --- fish and wildlife. --- industrialization. --- invasive species. --- natural history. --- natural sciences. --- nonfiction. --- oil tankers. --- pacific ocean. --- pollution. --- primer. --- resource management. --- san francisco bay. --- scientists. --- tidal wetlands. --- travel guide. --- waterbirds.