The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (signed)

Earle, Sylvia A.

ISBN 10: 1426205414 / ISBN 13: 9781426205415

Edité par National Geographic, 2009

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Signed in blue ink on the title page. Uncommon signed. Sylvia Earle (b. 1935) is a standout marine biologist, oceanographer and explorer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998, was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. Among many, many other accolades, she has won the Rachel Carson Award from the National Audubon Society and the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science. An important woman in science and biology. Fine book in fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (signed)
• Éditeur: National Geographic
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1426205414
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781426205415
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Oceans/Marshland
  • Women in the Environment

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Synopsis

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis. In recent decades we’ve learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But, even as our knowledge has exploded, so too has our power to upset the delicate balance of this complex organism. Modern overexploitation has driven many species to the verge of extinction, from tiny but indispensable biota to magnificent creatures like tuna, swordfish, and great whales. Since the mid-20th century about half our coral reefs have died or suffered sharp decline; hundreds of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" blight our coastal waters; and toxic pollutants afflict every level of the food chain. Fortunately, there is reason for hope, but what we do―or fail to do―in the next ten years may well resonate for the next ten thousand. The ultimate goal, Earle argues passionately and persuasively, is to find responsible, renewable strategies that safeguard the natural systems that sustain us. The first step is to understand and act upon the wise message of this accessible, insightful, and compelling book.

À propos de l?auteur

Sylvia A. Earle is a former NOAA chief scientist. She has led more than 60 expeditions as an oceanographer and explorer, authored 170 publications, and lectured in 70 countries. Among many other books to her credit, she is the author of Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas, with Linda K. Glover.