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The Empty Sea

- The Future of the Blue Economy

Om The Empty Sea

The ΓÇ£Blue EconomyΓÇ¥ is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely, overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its resources, describing the so-called fishermanΓÇÖs curse ΓÇô or why fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea. Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceansΓÇÖ sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including ΓÇ£fishing downΓÇ¥ for untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem. How Neanderthals crossed the sea in canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra, discovered the ΓÇ£equations of fishing,ΓÇ¥ why it has become so easy to be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play ΓÇ£Moby Dick,ΓÇ¥ a simple board game that simulates the overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading this engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding relationship between humanity and the sea.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9783030518974
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 203
  • Utgitt:
  • 13. februar 2021
  • Utgave:
  • 12021
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 163x243x20 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 514 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Leveringstid: 4-7 virkedager
Forventet levering: 16. november 2024

Beskrivelse av The Empty Sea

The ΓÇ£Blue EconomyΓÇ¥ is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely, overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its resources, describing the so-called fishermanΓÇÖs curse ΓÇô or why fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea. Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceansΓÇÖ sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including ΓÇ£fishing downΓÇ¥ for untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem.
How Neanderthals crossed the sea in canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra, discovered the ΓÇ£equations of fishing,ΓÇ¥ why it has become so easy to be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play ΓÇ£Moby Dick,ΓÇ¥ a simple board game that simulates the overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading this engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding relationship between humanity and the sea.

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