The Atlas of Coasts and Oceans Download

Author: Don Hinrichsen
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226342263

The Atlas of Coasts and Oceans: Ecosystems, Threatened Resources, Marine Conservation

Oceans drive the world's climate, nurture marine ecosystems full of aquatic life, and provide shipping lanes that have defined the global economy for centuries. Download The Atlas of Coasts and Oceans: Ecosystems, Threatened Resources, Marine Conservation from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. And few realize that half of the world's population lives in a coastal region within easy reach of one. Yet human activities such as commercial fishing, coastal real estate development, and industrial pollution have taken their toll on the seas. The first book of its kind, The Atlas of Coasts and Oceans documents the fraught relationship between humans and the earth's largest bodies of water-and outlines the conservation steps needed to protect the marine environment for generations to come.

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