Shifting Baselines The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jackson, Jeremy B. C. (Editor), Alexander, Karen E. (Editor), Sala, Enric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Ecosystems.; Aquatic ecology.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.

Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expecta...