Author: Ana Laura Ibáñez
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030111261
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, this book highlights current challenges in, and potential solutions to, environmental water management in Mexico. It includes an essential review of current literature and state of the art research, providing a one-stop resource for researchers, graduate students and environmental water managers alike. The result of a cooperation between 35 researchers from seven Mexican academic institutions, two Federal Commissions and one international organization, the book links science to practice for living organisms and their environment, while also addressing anthropogenic effects on our water ecosystems. Particularly the book addresses the following subjects: Biodiversity in inland waters, physical and chemical characterization of inland waters, physico-chemical characterization of Mexican coastal lagoons, microbiota in brackish ecosystems, diversity associated with southern Mexico’s pacific coral reefs, fry fish stockings in aquatic epicontinental systems, a review of tuna fisheries in Mexico, fishery resource management challenges stemming from climate change, aquatic invasive alien species, harmful algal blooms, and aquatic protected areas, related ecological and social problems and the importance for fisheries’ yield.
Author: Rudolph A. Rosen
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623491932
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Author: Friederike Stock
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030841146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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This book reviews comprehensively the opportunities and responsibilities of science, society and politics to combat plastic pollution in marine and freshwaters. It provides insights on what information is needed, and from whom, and it outlines policies proposed by various institutions including OSPAR, HELCOM and the European Union. Plastic waste has become a global threat to the aquatic environment that does not stop at country borders. Meanwhile, there are many efforts in science, industry, commerce and governments to tackle the problem worldwide. School education, NGO public actions, voluntary trade reduction measures, governmental management options and governmental regulatory actions are part of the portfolio of efforts to deal with the problem. Together with the companion volume Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part I: Current Status and Challenges, it provides scientists, policymakers and environmental managers with essential reference information on how this problem is being solved, what challenges and barriers are expected and how they can be overcome.
Author: Suzanne Michel
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 0925613401
Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Author: Paul Ganster
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 9780925613349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Donat-P. Häder
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030756025
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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This book provides examples of pollutants, such as accidental oil spills and non-degradable plastic debris, which affect marine organisms of all taxa. Terrestrial runoff washes large amounts of dissolved organic materials from agriculture and industry, toxic heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and persistent organic pollutants which end up into rivers, coastal habitats, and open waters. While this book is not intended to encyclopaedically list all kinds of pollution, it rather exemplifies the problems by concentrating on a number of serious and prominent recent developments. The chapters in this book also discuss measures to decrease and remove aquatic pollution to mitigate the stress on aquatic organisms. Aquatic ecosystems provide a wide range of ecological and economical services. In addition to providing a large share of the staple diet for a fast growing human population, oceans absorb most of the anthropogenically emitted carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change. As well as rising temperatures and ocean acidification, pollution poses increasing problems for aquatic ecosystems and organisms reducing its functioning and services which are exposed to a plethora of stress factors.
Author: Ratikanta Maiti
Publisher: American Academic Press
ISBN: 1631818694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Living with Mexican environments, culture, education and science for decades narrates a concise experience of Professor Ratikanta Maiti during last 30 years as a Professor and Research scientist on Mexican environments, culture, education and scientific research, who was borne and brought up in a remote village in Calcutta, India, have settled in Mexico in a totally different environment and culture. He narrates that though he had faced several obstacles in the form of language, communication, culture and environment, in a short span of time he learnt Spanish language and could guide a number of Mexican students. He also made a concise and critical review on climate, biodiversity, agriculture, religion, pyramids, volcanoes, role of ethnic tribes and their culture, Mexican family, habits, marriage systems, food habits, clothing, festivals, Mexican villages, sea beaches, transport systems, political structure, social problems, and several other aspects. He made constructive criticism and suggestions on some of the aspects mentioned above. He narrates explicitly architecture, music and dance by his own experiences on the system of education and science in Mexico as well as his significant contributions in teaching and multidisciplinary research. This gives an insight in to the Mexican culture and, his contributions to the professional development of students and teachers in research. This shows that adaptation to a different environment and culture is a prerequisite to contribute significantly to the research and one has to have a dedicative and competitive spirit to compete with the native scientists of Mexico. His judicious and strenuous efforts in research led to the publishing of many books and research papers with the Mexican Scientists. The book indicates that Mexico has vast natural resources which need to be conserved and make sustainable use of them. This book serves as a guide to foreigners to know about Mexican climates, culture, education and science and various aspects of Mexico. He and his family have great love for Mexicans.
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031172779
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
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This contributed volume presents an analysis of the current conservation status of major faunal groups in Mexico. The chapters describe a prognosis of future challenges, and also explore the expanding threats inherent in the Anthropocene within the context of the unique physical, biological and cultural aspects of the nation. Covering 27 chapters, and written by Mexican and international authors, this book analyzes a wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate animal taxa, their ecosystems and the critical processes related to their present conservation status. This volume is an important reference material for researchers, conservationists and students interested in the biological and ecological processes shaping the Mexican fauna.
Author: Keith Rodney Benson
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295982397
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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From a study of knowledge of the sea among indigenous cultures in the South Seas to inquiries into the subject of sea monsters, from studies of Pacific currents to descriptions of ocean-going research vessels, the sixty-three essays presented here reflect the scientific complexity and richness of social relationships that characterize ocean-ographic history. Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), the volume features an unusual breadth of contributions. Oceanography itself involves the full spectrum of physical, biological, and earth sciences in their formal, empirical, and applied manifestations. The contributors to Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond undertake the interdisciplinary task of telling the story of oceanography’s past, drawing on diverse methodologies. Their essays explore the concepts, techniques, and technologies of oceanography, as well as the social, economic, and institutional determinants of oceanographic history. Although focused on the Pacific, the geographic range of subjects is global and includes Micronesia, East Africa, and Antarctica; the bathymetric range comprises inshore fisheries, coral reefs, and the "azoic zone." The seventy-one contributors represent every continent of the globe except Antarctica, bringing together material on the history of oceanography never before published.
Author: Edward Sadalla
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 9780925613462
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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