| Description |
xxii, 283 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Foreword by Graeme Kelleher -- Preface by Sylvia A. Earle -- Overview by Linda K. Glover and Arlo H. Hemphill -- Chapter 1: The Caribbean -- by Mark Spalding and Philip Kramer -- Chapter 2: Seamount Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation -- by Gregory Stone, Laurence Madin, Karen Stocks, Glenn Hovermale, Porter Hoagland, Mary Schumacher, Carolyn Steve-Sotka, Heather Tausig and Peter Etnoyer -- Chapter 3: The Southern Ocean: A Model System for Conserving Resources? -- by John P. Croxall and Phil N. Trathan -- Chapter 4: Coral Triangle -- by Jamie Bechtel, Tim Werner, Ghislaine Llewellyn, Rod Salm and Gerald R. Allen -- Chapter 5: The Gulf of California: Natural Resource Concerns and the Pursuit of a Vision -- by Mari ́a de los Ángeles Carvajal, Exequiel Ezcurra & Alejandro Robles -- Chapter 6: Lines on the Water: Ocean Use Planning within Large Marine Ecosystems -- 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 a Crossroads -- 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 -- by Stephen B. Olsen, Richard Kenchington, Neil Davies, Guilherme Dutra, Lynne Zeitlin Hale, Alejandro Robles and Sue Wells -- Chapter 9: Restoring and Maintaining Marine Ecosystem Function -- by Les Kaufman, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Enric Sala, Penny Chisolm, Edgardo D. Gomez and Charles Peterson -- Chapter 10: Defying Ocean's End through the Power of Communications -- by Robin Abadia, Brian Day, Nancy Baron, Nancy Knowlton, John McCosker, -- Aristides Katoppo and Hugh Hough -- Chapter 11: Ocean Governance: A New Ethos through a World Ocean Public Trust -- by Montserrat Gorina-Ysern, Kristina Gjerde and Michael Orbach -- Chapter 12: The Unknown Ocean -- by Larry Madin, Fred Grassle, Farouk Azam, David Obura, Marjorie Reaka-Kudla, Myriam Sibuet, Greg Stone, Karen Stocks, Anne Walls and Gerry Allen -- Chapter 13: Business Plan -- by Benjamin A. Vitale, Larry Linden, James N. Hauslein, Ivan Barkhorn and Dietmar Grimm -- Chapter 14: Technology Support to Conservation -- by Robert J. Fine and Daniel A. Zimble -- Time for a Sea Change by Sylvia A. Earle -- Participant list -- Index -- Foreword -- By Graeme Kelleher -- The beginning of this new millennium is a critical time for humanity, our fellow animals, plants and the biosphere. For the first time, as far as we know, a single species has become so numerous and so powerful that its activities have already caused significant changes in the biosphere and have the potential to have much more serious, even catastrophic, effects on our living earth. -- The purpose of the Defying Ocean's End Conference in Los Cabos, Mexico, in May/June 2003 was to bring the consciousness and commitment of an ocean-experienced cross section of international experts to focus on how to make humanity more of a friend to our living earth. -- Fortunately, we were not starting from scratch. Over the past decade in particular, there has been a series of developments that provided a foundation on which to build. To mention just a few: -- The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1994 (UNCLOS) -- The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) -- The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) -- Recent United Nations General Assembly resolutions -- The imminent coming into effect of the Kyoto Climate Change Convention -- The establishment of a High Seas Marine Protected Area (MPA) Executive Committee, which brings together IUCN, the World Conservation Union, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and some governments in the cause of High Seas MPAs -- Since the DOE event, its themes have also been addressed at: -- The Workshop in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, on 17 - 21 June 2003, focusing on high seas biodiversity - an expression of the Australian government's commitment to this issue; and -- The World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa, on 8 - 17 September 2003. -- The future offers good opportunities to form a continuum in the process. The first International MPA Congress (IMPAC1) in Geelong, Australia, scheduled for October 2005 and the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress in Bangkok, in November 2004 are two examples. -- We used to say that the world is littered with paper parks. That's still true, but referring to the oceans it might be fair to say we are awash in wish lists. We don't want another one. The Defying Ocean's End Conference was organized into seven theme groups and five regional case study groups, with a great deal of preparatory work done before we convened in Los Cabos. The chairs of the Case Study and Theme Groups had a major responsibility in defining realistic Action Plans for three target times: one, three and ten years. The expectations during the Conference were to create an Action Plan, defining specific: -- Outcomes - targets -- Target groups -- Actors -- Time Lines -- Costs -- Sources of Resources -- Results of this work before, during and since the conference are presented in the chapters of this book. -- There were four crosscutting attributes of the Conference in general and of the theme groups in particular that should be recognized and applauded. The first was the enthusiasm. The enthusiasm that was shown by everybody involved was wonderful. Most of us are familiar with those terrible conferences where people preach from the podium and people from the audience sneak out to talk to each other rather than listen and, as a consequence, they don't take part in the creative function of the conference. Fortunately, that was not the case here - Defying Ocean's End was a Conference characterized by commitment, communication and collaboration. -- The second element we should identify is thoughtfulness. The DOE Conference was unusual in the deliberate abandonment of mental boundaries. The thoughtfulness that was expressed and demonstrated by the speakers and the non-speakers who have worked with the lead people, the theme groups and the case studies was quite outstanding. -- Third, the professionalism was outstanding. All the participants, in my view, demonstrated great professionalism. -- Fourth, and just as important, was cross-professionalism. The language used was generally understandable even by people from other professions. I think that's going to be one of the most important things to foster as we continue along the path we are following together. Cross-professional communication will be absolutely fundamental and will lead to increased collaboration. We have to continue to collaborate, not just between professions, but also between nations and between communities and organizations around the world. -- There are another four things that I should like to share with you as you use this book. They are the results of work before and after the DOE Conference. There are four lessons we can all apply personally and collectively: -- First, follow your dream. All of us involved with Defying Ocean's End have a dream of a world where humans are not the enemy of the biosphere but the friend. I should like to quote from Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet, who said, "and this above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Following our dream is going to be an absolutely essential path to the future we hope for. -- The second lesson is based on a quotation from the owl in the Pogo comic strip. "I have met the enemy, and it is us!" We need to realize that most, if not all, of us have inherited or developed attitudes and instincts that threaten our species and the entire biosphere. They include selfishness, hostility, prejudice against others and the desire for revenge. These attitudes were markedly absent during the DOE Conference. We need to be increasingly conscious of such attitudes and instincts in others and ourselves so we can act cooperatively and creatively. -- The third quotation, from the book of Genesis, is probably well known to most of you. "Be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth." If there is one lesson that the problems of our environment should have taught us, it is that this injunction is disastrous. Humanity must live in harmony with the earth and not try to subdue it. If human populations continue to increase, we will eventually overwhelm the biosphere. -- The fourth lesson I should like to mention is never give up! The quotation for that is "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at its flood leads on to fortune." (Brutus from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.) Now, if you never give up, you will eventually encounter the incoming tide and can ride it to the fulfillment of your dream. Our dream is for humanity to live in harmony with the biosphere. If there was ever a tide in humanity's relation to the sea, it is now. It is demonstrated in conferences such as this one, in international agreements, research into marine ecosystems and processes and their relations to the entire biosphere and in the gradually increasing understanding by human communities of these relations. -- Let us take this tide in its flood for the future of humanity and our wonderful planet! -- Preface -- Sylvia A. Earle -- "Eventually man found his way back to the sea. And yet he has returned t |
| Summary |
"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 a much larger scale than we have to date. What's also clear is that 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 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 May/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 ocean." |
|
"Defying Ocean's End is a step in bringing the needed resources 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 ocean - and for all of us."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Biodiversity |
|
International cooperation |
|
Case studies |
|
Overseas item |
|
Marine environments |
|
Natural resource management |
|
Defying ocean's end |
|
DOE |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marine pollution -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
|
|
Marine ecology -- Congresses.
|
|
Aquatic resources conservation -- Congresses.
|
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Author |
Glover, Linda K.
|
|
Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-
|
| LC no. |
2004024488 |
| ISBN |
1559637536 cloth alkaline paper |
|
1559637552 paperback alkaline paper |
|
