Perspectives on oceans past / Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez, Bo Poulsen, editors.
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...
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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 womeǹs business too
- looking at marine resource use through a gender lens.