› › Evaluating Biological Characteristics Of Marine Renewable Energy Sites For Environmental Monitoring




Aquatic Food Webs

Author : Andrea Belgrano

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 30,85 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Science

ISBN : 0198564821

Get eBook

Book Description

'Aquatic Food Webs' provides a current synthesis of theoretical and empirical food web research. The textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community, ecosystem, and theoretical ecology, in aquatic ecology, and in conservation biology.



Marine Renewable Energy

Author : Zhaoqing Yang

Publisher : Springer

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 16,45 MB

Release : 2017-04-24

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3319535366

Get eBook

Book Description

This complete reference to marine renewable energy covers aspects of resource characterization and physical effects of harvesting the ocean’s vast and powerful resources—from wave and tidal stream to ocean current energy. Experts in each of these areas contribute their insights to provide a cohesive overview of the marine renewable energy spectrum based on theoretical, numerical modeling, and field-measurement approaches. They provide clear explanations of the underlying physics and mechanics, and give close consideration to practical implementation aspects, including impacts on the physical system. Engineers, researchers, and students alike will find invaluable tools and studies that will aid them in realizing significant sustainable energy production from near-shore and ocean environments.



Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Science in Assessing the Health Status of Marine Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

Author : Angel Borja

Publisher : Frontiers Media SA

Page : 548 pages

File Size : 46,39 MB

Release : 2017-03-22

Category : Oceanography

ISBN : 2889451267

Get eBook

Book Description

Marine management requires approaches which bring together the best research from the natural and social sciences. It requires stakeholders to be well-informed by science and to work across administrative and geographical boundaries, a feature especially important in the inter-connected marine environment. Marine management must ensure that the natural structure and functioning of ecosystems is maintained to provide ecosystem services. Once those marine ecosystem services have been created, they deliver societal goods as long as society inputs its skills, time, money and energy to gather those benefits. However, if societal goods and benefits are to be limitless, society requires appropriate administrative, legal and management mechanisms to ensure that the use of such benefits do not impact on environmental quality, but instead support its sustainable use.









Deep-Sea Mining

Author : Rahul Sharma

Publisher : Springer

Page : 535 pages

File Size : 45,42 MB

Release : 2017-03-28

Category : Science

ISBN : 3319525573

Get eBook

Book Description

This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining. Interest in exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals is seeing a revival due to diminishing grades and increasing costs of processing of terrestrial minerals as well as availability of several strategic metals in seabed mineral resources; it therefore becomes imperative to take stock of various issues related to deep-sea mining. The authors are experienced scientists and engineers from around the globe developing advanced technologies for mining and metallurgical extraction as well as performing deep sea exploration for several decades. They invite readers to learn about the resource potential of different deep-sea minerals, design considerations and development of mining systems, and the potential environmental impacts of mining in international waters.