Implications for Society and Well-Being
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These are complex, challenging, and critically importantthemes. How the human relationship to the oceans evolves incoming decades may be one of the most important connections inunderstanding our personal and social well-being. Yet, ourunderstanding of this relationship is far too limited.
This remarkable volume brings experts from diverse disciplinesand builds a workable understanding of breadth anddepth of the processes - both social and environmental- that will help us to limit future costs and enhance thebenefits of sustainable marine systems. In particular, theauthors have developed a shared view that the global coastalenvironment is under threat through intensified natural resourceutilization, as well as changes to global climate and otherenvironmental systems. All these changes contributeindividually, but more importantly cumulatively, to higher risksfor public health and to the global burden of disease.
This pioneering book will be of value to advanced undergraduateand postgraduate students taking courses in public health,environmental, economic, and policy fields. Additionally, thetreatment of these complex systems is of essential value to thepolicy community responsible for these questions and to the broaderaudience for whom these issues are more directly connected to theirown health and well-being.
"The seas across this planet and their effects on human societyand its destiny are a fascinating subject for analysis and insightsderived from intellectual inquiry. This diverse and complex subjectnecessarily requires a blending of knowledge from differentdisciplines, which the authors of this volume have achieved withremarkable success."
"The following pages in this volume are written in a lucid andvery readable style, and provide a wealth of knowledge andinsightful analysis, which is a rare amalgam of multi-disciplinaryperspectives and unique lines of intellectual inquiry. It isvaluable to get a volume such as this, which appeals as much to anon-specialist reader as it does to those who are specialists inthe diverse but interconnected subjects covered in thisvolume."
(From the "Foreword" written by, R K Pachauri, Director General,TERI and Chairman, IPCC)
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Contributors vii
Foreword xi
About the Companion Website xiii
Section One: Coastal Seas, Human Health, and Well-Being: Setting the Stage
1 Influences of the Oceans on Human Health and Well-Being 3
2 Integrating Frameworks to Assess Human Health and Well-Being in Marine Environmental Systems 23
Section Two: Anthropogenic Drivers/Pressures and the State of Coastal Seas
3 Coastal Demography: Distribution, Composition, and Dynamics 49
4 The Seas, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being 71
5 Measuring Social Value and Human Well-Being 113
Section Three: Impacts on Coastal Environments
6 The Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems 141
7 Coastal Systems and Access to Safe and Potable Water 177
Section Four: Responses
8 Management-Driven Assessments of the Coastal Oceans 203
9 Globalization and Human Health: Regulatory Response and the Potential for Reform 231
Section Five: Common Conclusions and Horizon Scanning
10 Emerging Issues in Oceans and Human Health: Managing Uncertainty and New Knowledge 267
11 Final Thoughts and Future Actions 291
Index 299
