Marine Pollution and Climate Change

Name: Marine Pollution and Climate Change
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781482299434
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Marine Pollution and Climate Change offers a comprehensive overview of the critical pollution challenges affecting our oceans amid climatic, economic, and legal globalisation. It explores oceanic changes from ancient times to the present, emphasising the roles of marine currents and shifting climates. The book examines various pollutants linked to climate change, including fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, heavy metals, pesticides, plastics, emerging contaminants, and marine debris. It also addresses global shipping impacts, species invasions, and the effects of climate change on Arctic and Antarctic environments, alongside current regulatory efforts to tackle these pressing issues.
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This book is suited for readers interested in environmental science, marine ecology, and policy makers concerned with pollution and climate change impacts on oceans. It is ideal for students, researchers, and academics who seek an interdisciplinary understanding of marine pollution within a global context.

This book is an overview of pollution issues facing climatic, economic, and legal globalization. Topics include changes in oceans from ancient times to the present, the importance of marine currents and changing climates, marine pollution linked to climate change, global shipping and species invasion, and regulatory responses to changes in oceans.

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Marine Pollution and Climate Change presents a broad overview of pollution issues facing climatic, economic, and legal globalization. Topics include changes in oceans from ancient times to the present, the importance of marine currents and changing climates, and marine pollution linked to climate change. This encompasses fossil fuels, global carbon dioxide, heavy metals, pesticides, plastics, emerging pollutants, and marine debris.

The book also explores global shipping and species invasion, global climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic environments, and regulatory responses to mitigate pollution and climate change in oceans.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781482299434

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 September 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Illustration: 12 Illustrations, color; 64 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Andres Hugo Arias
Edited by Jorge Eduardo Marcovecchio

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 336

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Andres Hugo Arias is a researcher and assistant professor at Instituto Argentinio de Oceanografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jorge Eduardo Marcovecchio is a researcher at Instituto Argentinio de Oceanografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.