Spencer Fullerton Baird and the U.S. Fish Commission
Author : Dean C. Allard
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Dean C. Allard
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : George Brown Goode
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
This bibliography of the works of Spencer Fullerton Baird is complete to the end of the year 1882 and contains 1,063 titles. Titles on Ichthyology are well represented, with additional titles devoted to birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates (mostly reviews) and numerous brief notices and critical reviews (775) contributed to the "Annual Record of Science and Industry". There are something under 200 formal contributions to the scientific literature. There are also a number of papers that touch on topics such as botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, anthropology, exploration and travel, and industry and art, and zoogeography.
Author : William Healey Dall
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Museum curators
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : D. G. Webster
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262534738
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the “management treadmill.” The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries management are not technical but political and economic. In this book, D. G. Webster describes how the political economy of fisheries has evolved and highlights patterns that are linked to sustainable transitions in specific fisheries. Grounded in the concept of responsive governance, Webster's interdisciplinary analysis goes beyond the conventional view of the "tragedy of the commons.” Using her Action Cycle/Structural Context framework, she maps long-running patterns that cycle between depletion and rebuilding in a process that she terms the management treadmill. Webster documents the management treadmill in settings that range from small coastal fishing communities to international fisheries that span entire oceans. She identifies the profit disconnect, in which economic incentives are out of sync with sustainable use, and the power disconnect, in which those who experience the costs of overexploitation are politically marginalized. She examines how these disconnects shaped the economics of expansion and documents how political systems failed to prevent related cycles of serial resource depletion. Webster also traces the increasing use of restrictive management in response to worsening fisheries crises and the emergence of new, noncommercial interests that demand greater management but also generate substantial conflict. She finds that the management treadmill is speeding up with population growth and economic development, and so concludes that sustainable fisheries can only exist within a sustainable global economic system.
Author : James S. Latimer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 146146126X
The U.S. Ocean Commission Report identified the need for regional ecosystem assessments to support coastal and ocean management. These assessments must provide greater understanding of physical and biological dynamics than assessments at global and national scales can provide but transcend state and local interests. This need and timeliness is apparent for Long Island Sound, where a multi-state regional restoration program is underway for America’s most urbanized estuary. Synthesis of the Long Island Sound ecosystem is needed to integrate knowledge across disciplines and provide insight into understanding and managing pressing issues, such as non-point sources of pollution, coastal development, global climatic change, and invasive species. Currently, there is a need for a comprehensive volume that summarizes the ecological and environmental dynamics and status of Long Island Sound and its myriad ecosystems. It has been 30 years since a comprehensive summary of Long Island Sound was prepared and 50 years since the pioneering work of Gordon Riley. Major advances in estuarine science are providing new insights into these systems, and yet, the condition of many estuaries is in decline in the face of continuing coastal development. There is an opportunity to lay a foundation for integrative coastal observing systems that truly provide the foundation for improved decision-making. This book will provide a key reference of our scientific understanding for work performed over the past three decades and guide future research and monitoring in a dynamic urbanized estuary.
Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226487296
In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.
Author : W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0674067215
Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival, and people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world.
Author : Joseph E. Taylor III
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0295989912
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History
Author : Margaret Beattie Bogue
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0299167631
Fishing the Great Lakes is a sweeping history of the destruction of the once-abundant fisheries of the great "inland seas" that lie between the United States and Canada. Though lake trout, whitefish, freshwater herring, and sturgeon were still teeming as late as 1850, Margaret Bogue documents here how overfishing, pollution, political squabbling, poor public policies, and commercial exploitation combined to damage the fish populations even before the voracious sea lamprey invaded the lakes and decimated the lake trout population in the 1940s. From the earliest records of fishing by native peoples, through the era of European exploration and settlement, to the growth and collapse of the commercial fishing industry, Fishing the Great Lakes traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region. Bogue focuses in particular on the period from 1783, when Great Britain and the United States first politically severed the geographic unity of the Great Lakes, through 1933, when the commercial fishing industry had passed from its heyday in the late nineteenth century into very serious decline. She shows how fishermen, entrepreneurial fish dealers, the monopolistic A. Booth and Company (which distributed and marketed much of the Great Lakes catch), and policy makers at all levels of government played their parts in the debacle. So, too, did underfunded scientists and early conservationists unable to spark the interest of an indifferent public. Concern with the quality of lake habitat and the abundance of fish increasingly took a backseat to the interests of agriculture, lumbering, mining, commerce, manufacturing, and urban development in the Great Lakes region. Offering more than a regional history, Bogue also places the problems of Great Lakes fishing in the context of past and current worldwide fishery concerns.