Perspectives on Oceans Past [electronic resource] /
Schwerdtner Máñez, Kathleen.editor.
Poulsen, Bo.editor.
Marine environmental history analyses the changing relationships between human societies and marine natural resources over time. This is the first book which deals in a systematic way with the theoretical backgrounds of this discipline. Major theories and methods are introduced by leading scholars of the field. The book seeks to encapsulate some of the major novelties of this fascinating new discipline and its contribution to the management, conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as the cultural heritages of coastal communities in different parts of the world.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Of seascapes and people - multiple perspectives on oceans past -- 2. Acknowledging long-term ecological change: the problem of shifting baselines -- 3. Historical Fishing Communities -- 4. Archaeology as a tool for understanding past marine resource use and its impact -- 5. Human archives: Historians' methodologies and past marine resource use -- 6. On the need to study fishing power change: challenges and perspectives -- 7. Ecological indicators and food-web models as tools to study historical changes in marine ecosystems -- 8. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in historical perspective -- 9. Oral Histories: Informing Natural Resource Management Using Perceptions of the Past -- 10. A sea-change in the sea? Perceptions and practices towards sea turtles and manatees in Portugal’s Atlantic Ocean legacy -- 11. Fish is women`s business too – looking at marine resource use through a gender lens.  .
Marine environmental history analyses the changing relationships between human societies and marine natural resources over time. This is the first book which deals in a systematic way with the theoretical backgrounds of this discipline. Major theories and methods are introduced by leading scholars of the field. The book seeks to encapsulate some of the major novelties of this fascinating new discipline and its contribution to the management, conservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as the cultural heritages of coastal communities in different parts of the world.
Marine sciences.
Freshwater.
Coasts.
History.
Marine & Freshwater Sciences.
Coastal Sciences.
History, general.