Shifting Baselines: The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries

by Marah J. Hardt, Carl Safina, Francisco Chavez, et al.

Book Overview

Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expectations, in which each generation regards a progressively poorer natural world as normal. This seminal volume expands on Pauly's work, showing how skewed visions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610910001
• ISBN13: 9781610910002
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"