Advances in Fisheries Economics

Edited by Trond Bjorndal et al

Focuses on the area of fisheries economics and management. Compiled in honour of the work and achievements of Professor Gordon Munro of the University of British Columbia, ....

Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data

Edited by Christopher S Guy and Michael L Brown

This long-awaited text is an excellent companion to AFS's Fisheries Techniques because it provides a frame of reference for appropriate sample design, analysis and ....

Aquaculture Based Fisheries

Kai Lorenzen

This book is entirely devoted to culture fisheries, which are fisheries based largely or entirely on the stocking of farm-produced seed fish. It provides a solid, scientific ....

Aquaculture: Principles and Practices

TVR Pillay and MN Kutty

New edition of the standard aquaculture textbook. ....

Aspects of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the Southern Ocean

Rachel Jane Baird

Overfishing threatens the viability of high seas living resources. Furthermore, controls to prevent overfishing are inadequate. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing ....

Assessment of the Fate and Effects of Toxic Agents on Water Resources

Edited by IE Gonenc, V Koutitonsky, B Rashleigh, RB Ambrose Jr and JP Wolflin

Like all limited and vulnerable resources, water has become one of the potential targets of terrorists. Coastal lagoons are especially vulnerable as they are densely populated ....

Bioeconomic Modelling and Valuation of Exploited Marine Ecosystems

JCJM at al van den Bergh

This book offers an environmental-economic analysis of exploited ecosystems with a clear policy orientation. The study tries to move beyond traditional economic fishery analysis ....

The Biology and Management of the World Tarpon and Bonefish Fisheries

Jerald S Ault

This book is a comprehensive reference guide to the economically and ecologically important tarpon and bonefish species. It combines an overview of the world tarpon and ....

Blue Revolution

Integrated Land and Water Resource Management

Ian R Calder

Provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resources management. It presents the key issues ....

Channels and Challenges

The enhancement of Salmonid Rivers

Martin O'Grady

Over the past 20 years the Central and Regional Fisheries Boards have invested substantial monies (circa 30m Euros) in the enhancement of salmonid rivers in Ireland ....

Conflicts Over Land and Water in Africa

Edited by Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard and Espen Sjaastad

Efforts to change the race-based systems of land ownership and land tenure in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have pushed land issues to the forefront of social and ....

Contaminated Rivers

A Geomorphological-Geochemical Approach to Site Assessment and Remediation

Jerry R Miller and Suzanne M Orbock Miller

The geomorphological, surficial and geochemical processes and conditions of rivers require a tailored set of strategies and programs to successfully clean up contaminated ....

Dictionary of Marine Natural Products

With CD-ROM

John Blunt and Murray HG Munro

Providing a much needed reference on all known marine products, the Dictionary of Marine Natural Products with CD-ROM indexes each product by chemical name, CAS registry number, ....

Fisheries Acoustics

D N MacLennan and E J Simmonds

This book provides thorough coverage of the subject with particular emphasis on practical acoustic methods for fish assessment. The book covers the underlying ....

Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management

Michael King

This second edition represents a culmination of many years' experience by the author Mike King and is an enlarged and fully updated version of this most popular fisheries ....

Fishery Co-Management

A Practical Handbook

RS Pomeroy and R Rivera-Guieb

During the last decade, there has been a shift in the governance and management of fisheries to a broader approach that recognizes the participation of fishers, local ....

Fish Catching Methods of the World

A von Brandt

A comprehensive survey of the evolution of fishing methods throughout the world. ....

Fisheries Management

Progress toward Sustainability

Edited by Tim McClanahan and Juan Carlos Castilla

The world's stocks of wild fish continue to decline, making the task of finding innovative, sustainable and socially acceptable methods of fisheries management more ....

Globalization and the World Ocean

Peter Jacques

Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is ....

Groundwater

Resource Evaluation, Augmentation, Contamination Restoration, Modeling and Management

Edited by M Thangarajan

This book is the outcome of the invited topics from various international experts in the field of groundwater resource evaluation, characterization, augmentation, restoration, ....

Groundwater in the Environment

An Introduction

Paul L Younger

This book provides a simple, yet rigorous and thorough, introduction to groundwater systems, without resorting to mathematical notation. Einstein argued that "the whole of ....

Groundwater Recharge from Run-off, Infiltration and Percolation

KP Seiler and JR Gat

Groundwater constitutes the most important reservoir of available clean water. Due to its overexploitation, some anthropogenic mismanagement on the surface and the ....

Groundwater Science and Policy

An International Overview

Edited by Philippe Quevauviller

This book offers a scientific overview of key findings in groudwater management set in context against the legislative milestones ensuing as a result of research and ....

A History of Water 3 Volume Set

Terje Tvedt, Richard Coopey, Eva Jakobson and Terje Ostigaard

Three volumes that explore all aspects of water - social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological - from ancient times to the present ....

Hooked

Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish

G Bruce Knecht

Hooked is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as "Chilean Sea Bass") and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing ....

Hydrology and Water Management in the Humid Tropics

Edited by M Bonell, MM Hufschmidt and JS Gladwell

Essential title finally reissued in paperback. ....

Inter-Basin Water Transfer

Case Studies from Australia, United States, Canada, China and India

Fereidoun Ghassemi and Ian White

Increasing demands for irrigation, domestic and industrial water have generated a massive growth world-wide in the number of large water infrastructure projects involving ....

Integrated Evaluation for Sustainable River Basin Governance

Paula Antunes

This Report synthesizes the main results obtained throughout the ADVISOR research project ("Integrated Evaluation for Sustainable River Basin Governance") funded by the ....

Integrated Watershed Management

Connecting People to their Land and Water

H Gregersen, P Ffolliott and K Brookes

As human populations expand and demands upon natural resources increase, the need to manage the environments in which people live becomes more important but also more ....

Killing our Oceans

Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life

John Charles Kunich

From coral reefs to recently discovered hydrothermal vents, the oceans contain vast numbers of endangered species. We are rapidly losing these unique, irreplaceable ....

The Knowledge Base for Fisheries Management

Edited by Lorenzo Motos and Douglas Wilson

Fisheries are in a state of crisis throughout the world. While there has been some success, truly effective fisheries management seems beyond our grasp. The knowledge ....

Managing Water

Avoiding Crisis in California

Dorothy Green

Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and ....

Marine Reserves

A Guide to Science, Design and Use

Jack Sobel and Craig Dahlgren

Provides a synthesis of information on the underlying science, as well as design and implementation issues. It describes the need for marine reserves and their potential ....

Methods and Tools for Drought Analysis and Management

Edited by Giuseppe Rossi, Teodoro Vega and Brunella Bonaccorso

Frequent drought events, recently occurred in different Mediterranean regions, have highlighted a general inadequacy of the current strategies applied to mitigate negative ....

The Most Important Fish in the Sea

Menhaden and America

H Bruce Franklin

In this brilliant portrait of the oceans' unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America's national-and natural-history, and why reckless ....

The Niger, a Lifeline - DVD

A Wetlands International and Ramsar Secretariat documentary on the consequences of large scale dam construction on biodiversity, hydrological regimes, livelihoods and ....

Ocean, Coast, Small Island and Wetland

Edited by Prabhas Chandra Sinha

The objective of this book is to provide readers/students with an integrated understanding of the global environmental regimes for the water resources of the world, ....

Ocean Environment and Fisheries

MPM Reddy

This book contains detailed information on the physical, chemical and biological oceanographic features at various depths for all the 15 regions of the Atlantic, ....

Pollution of the Sea - Prevention and Compensation

Edited by Jürgen Basedow and Ulrich Magnus

The International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs hosted a global conference addressing marine pollution. At this meeting, academics and practitioners ....

The Privatization of the Oceans

Rognvaldur Hannesson

Rich with detail and provocatively argued, this study of the development of property rights in the world's fisheries tells the story of one industry's evolution and provides ....

Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe

NATURA 2000 Sites in German Offshore Waters

Edited by Henning von Nordheim, Dieter Boedecker and Jochen C Krause

This volume offers insight in the identification and selection procedure of marine protected areas in the German exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the North - and Baltic ....

A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of the Coppename River Basin, Suriname

Edited by Leeanne E Alonso and Haydi J Berrenstein

This volume describes the results of a biological expedition to the Coppename River, which travels through the forests of the Central Suriname Nature Reserve before entering ....

Restoring Floodplains in Europe

Policy Contexts and Project Experiences

Timothy Moss and Jochen Monstadt

Despite the considerable advancement of scientific knowledge on the functioning of floodplain ecosystems and the regulation of rivers there exist in Europe as yet very few ....

Scaling Fisheries

The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 1855-1955

TD Smith

Since the industrialization of fishing, fisheries scientists have been subject to intense economic and political pressures, which have affected the way the science has ....

Scallop Farming

David Hardy

The scallop farming industry continues to expand, providing an important global source of food and revenue. In recent decades over-fishing has caused a decline in wild stocks ....

The Science of Water

Concepts and Applications

Frank R Spellman

Hailed on its first publication as a masterful account of the state of water science, this second edition of a bestseller puts the spotlight on the critical importance of ....

Shrimp Culture

Economics, Market, and Trade

Carole R Engle and Pingsun Leung

Published in cooperation with The World Aquaculture Society, this book covers the major aspects of the economics, trade, and markets for shrimp worldwide, with chapters written ....

Socio-Economic Indicators in Integrated Coastal Zone and Community-Based Fisheries Management

Case Studies from the Caribbean

Edited by Uwe Tietze, Milton Haughton and Susana Siar

This publication consists of case studies describing how socio-economic and demographic concerns are addressed in integrated coastal zone and community-based fisheries ....

Sustainable Management of Water Resources

An Integrated Approach

Edited by Carlo Giupponi, Anthony J Jakeman et al

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and highly accessible introduction to water resource management, covering topics such as: ....

An Unexpected Ecosystem

The Amazon as Revealed by Fisheries

Ronaldo Barthem and Michael Goulding

The Amazon has the richest freshwater fish fauna in the world, and its evolution is closely linked to the rainforest and the vast floating meadows of the floodplains. ....

The Unnatural History of the Sea

Callum M Roberts

Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty ....

The Water Encyclopedia

Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources

Edited by Pedro Fierro and Evan K Nyer

The new edition contains more than 1100 tables and 500 figures providing data related to weather, surface water, ground water, water use, water quality, waste water, pollution, ....

Water from Heaven

The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization and Beyond

Robert Kandel

Covering a vast array of scientific fields and recent discoveries, Kandel traces water in all its chemical states as it cycles through the seas, the atmosphere, land, icecaps ....

Water Lifting Devices

A Handbook for Users and Choosers

Peter Fraenkel and Jeremy Thake

This is an updated and expanded new edition (formerly Water Pumping Devices), surveying the water-lifting technologies that are available and appropriate for smallholdings. It ....

Water: Life in Every Drop

Julian Caldecott

Forget oil. Water is the key resource for our future, and the future of the planet. All known forms of life depend on water. It is the single most important substance on ....

Water Policy for Sustainable Development

David Lewis Feldman

The shortage of fresh water is likely to be one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. A UNESCO report predicts that as many as 7 billion people will ....

The Worldwide Crisis in Fisheries

Economic Models and Human Behavior

Colin W. Clark

The world's marine fisheries are in trouble, as a direct result of overfishing and the overcapacity of fishing fleets. Despite intensive management efforts, the problems still ....

The World's Water 2006-2007

The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

Peter Gleick et al

Produced biennially, "The World's Water" provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains ....