Defying Ocean's End

by Glover, Linda K.; Earle, Sylvia A.; KELLEHER, GRAEME

• ISBN13: 9781559637558
• ISBN10: 1559637552
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-21
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

If humankind were given a mandate to do everything in our power to undermine the earth's functioning, we could hardly do a better job than we have in the past thirty years on the world's oceans, both by what we are putting into it-millions of tons of trash and toxic materials-and by what we are taking out of it-millions of tons of wildlife. Yet only recently have we begun to understand the scale of those impacts. Defying Ocean's End is the result of an unprecedented effort among the world's largest environmental organizations, scientists, the business community, media, and international governments to address these marine issues. In June 2003, in the culmination of a year-long effort, they met specifically to develop a comprehensive and achievable agenda to reverse the decline in health of the world's oceans. As conservation organizations begin to expand their focus from land issues to include a major focus on preservation of the sea, it is increasingly apparent that we have to approach marine conservation differently and at much larger scale than we have to date. What's also clear is the magnitude and immediacy of the growing ocean concerns are such that no one organization can handle the job alone. Defying Ocean's End is a bold step in bringing the resources needed to bear on this vast problem before it is too late. It offers a broad strategy, a practical plan with priorities and costs, aimed at mobilizing the forces needed to bring about a "sea change" of favorable attitudes, actions, and outcomes for the oceans-and for all of us.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Invitation to Action	xiii
by Gordon E. Moore and Sylvia A. Earle
Foreword	xv
by Graeme Kelleher
Preface	xix
by Sylvia A. Earle
Overview	1	(6)
by Linda K. Glover and Arlo H. Hemphill
Chapter 1. The Caribbean	7	(36)
by Mark Spalding and Philip Kramer
Chapter 2. Seamount Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation	43	(28)
by Gregory S. Stone, Laurence P. Madin, Karen Stocks, Glenn Hovermale, Porter Hoagland, Mary Schumacher, Peter Etnoyer, Carolyn Sotka and Heather Tausig
Chapter 3. The Southern Ocean: A Model System for Conserving Resources?	71	(18)
by John P. Croxall and Phil N. Trathan
Chapter 4. Coral Triangle	89	(16)
by Jamie Bechtel, Timothy B. Werner, Ghislaine Llewellyn, Rodney V. Salm and Gerald R. Allen
Chapter 5. The Gulf of California: Natural Resource Concerns and the Pursuit of a Vision	105	(20)
by Maria de los Ángeles Carvajal, Exequiel Ezcurra and Alejandro Robles
Chapter 6. Lines on the Water: Ocean-Use Planning in Large Marine Ecosystems	125	(14)
by Dee Boersma, John Ogden, George Branch, Rodrigo Bustamante, Claudio Campagna, Graham Harris and Ellen K. Pikitch
Chapter 7. Rationality or Chaos? Global Fisheries at the Crossroads	139	(12)
by Rod Fujita, Kate Bonzon, James Wilen, Andrew Solow, Ragnar Arnason, James Cannon and Steve Polasky
Chapter 8. A Global Network for Sustained Governance of Coastal Ecosystems	151	(14)
by Stephen B. Olsen, Richard Kenchington, Neil Davies, Guilherme F. Dutra, Lynne Zeitlin Hale, Alejandro Robles and Sue Wells
Chapter 9. Restoring and Maintaining Marine Ecosystem Function	165	(18)
by Les Kaufman, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Enric Sala, Penny Chisolm, Edgardo D. Gomez, Charles Peterson, Rodney V. Salm and Ghislaine Llewellyn
Chapter 10. Defying Ocean's End through the Power of Communications	183	(14)
by Robin Abadia, Brian Day, Nancy Knowlton, John E. McCosker, Nancy Baron, Aristides Katoppo and Hugh Hough
Chapter 11. Ocean Governance: A New Ethos through a World Ocean Public Trust	197	(16)
by Montserrat Gorina-Ysern, Kristina Gjerde and Michael Orbach
Chapter 12. The Unknown Ocean	213	(24)
by Laurence P. Madin, Fred Grassle, Farooq Azam, David Obura, Marjorie Reaka-Kudla, Myriam Sibuet, Gregory S. Stone, Karen Stocks, Anne Walls and Gerald R. Allen
Chapter 13. Business Plan	237	(10)
by Benjamin A. Vitale, Larry Linden, Ivan Barkhorn and Dietmar Grimm
Chapter 14. Technology Support to Conservation	247	(16)
by Robert J. Fine and Daniel A. Zimble
Time for a Sea Change	263	(9)
by Sylvia A. Earle
Conference Participants	272	(3)
Index	275