Perspectives on Oceans Past

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schwerdtner Máñez, Kathleen (Editor), Poulsen, Bo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; History.; Coasts.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Coastal Sciences.; History, general.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• 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.  .