Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change

AUTHOR: BREN SMITH | MAY 14, 2019

In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here Bren Smith—pioneer of regenerative ocean agriculture—introduces the world to a groundbreaking solution to the global climate crisis.

GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, Volume 2

EDITORS: DAWN WRIGHT & CHRISTIAN HARDER | DECEMBER 2020

GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, Volume 2 brings to life a continuing collection of current, real-world examples of scientists using geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data science to expand our understand of the world. Co-edited by Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright and Esri Technology Writer and Information Designer Christian Harder and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond, these case studies are part of a global effort to find ways to sustain a livable environment for all life on this planet. 

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The Ministry for the Future

AUTHOR: KIM STANLEY ROBINSON | OCTOBER 6, 2020

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us — and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

The Nature of Nature

AUTHOR: ENRIC SALA | AUGUST 25, 2020

In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense. Enric Sala wants to change the world—and in this compelling book, he shows us how. Once we appreciate how nature works, he asserts, we will understand why conservation is economically wise and essential to our survival.

The Outlaw Ocean

AUTHOR: IAN URBINA | AUGUST 25, 2020

Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, The Outlaw Ocean brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

Marine Policy: An Introduction to Governance and International Law of the Oceans

AUTHORS: MARK ZACHARIAS & JEFF ARDRON | JUNE 24, 2019

Marine Policy summarizes the importance of the ocean governance nexus, discussing current and anticipated challenges facing marine ecosystems, human activities, and efforts to address these threats.

Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions, Second Edition

EDITOR: DAWN J. WRIGHT | JUNE 8, 2016

What affects the oceans affects terra firma. Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions gathers the insights of more than 70 ocean and coastal science researchers exploring ocean components and their relationships, patterns, and trends over time and space. The second edition includes the original 16 chapters, four of which have been updated, plus seven new chapters that feature geographic information system (GIS) best practices and include additional online resources. 

Perilous Place, Powerful  Storms:  Hurricane Protection  in Coastal  Louisiana

AUTHOR: CRAIG E. COLTEN | JUNE 12, 2009

The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms, Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive structures designed to fend off tropical storms and examines how human actions and inactions left the system incomplete on the eve of its greatest challenge.

Routledge Handbook of National and Ocean Policies

AUTHORS: BILIANA CICIN-SAIN, DAVID VANDERZWAAG & MIRIAM C. BALGOS | DECEMBER 7, 2017

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management

AUTHORS: HANCE D. SMITH, JUAN LUIS SUÁREZ DE VIVERO & TUNDI S. AGARDY | JANUARY 23, 2018

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes. The underlying approach is geographical, with prominence given to the biosphere, political arrangements and regional patterns – all considered to be especially crucial to the human understanding required for the use and management of the world's oceans.

The Waters of Chaos: The Ancient Saga & The Modern Quest

AUTHORS: JEFF DOBSON & JERRY DOBSON | JULY 22, 2012

The Waters of Chaos (WoC) adventure novels unravel deep mysteries about the havoc that rising oceans wreaked on ancient lands. WoC: The Modern Quest follows twin brothers Jared and Rick Caisson as they use science, commonsense, and high technology to search for evidence of lost civilizations beneath today’s shallow seas. Based on lore, WoC: The Ancient Saga covers lovers Osi and Bera as the world they knew 10,500 years ago faces certain destruction.

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Get a glimpse into some of the stories behind the tools, applications, and maps developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Explore the GIS and science communities’ response to the pandemic, including the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, in this special chapter from GIS for Science: Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, Volume 2—designed as an interactive, online flip-book to enhance your experience.

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