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Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea (Springer Series on Environmental Management) by James S. Latimer, Mark A. Tedesco, R. Lawrence Swanson, Charles Yarish, Paul E. Stacey, Corey Garza is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Long Island Sound: Prospects for the Urban Sea is the first synthesis of the science of Long Island Sound in more than thirty-five years. Described by Daniel Webster as the American Mediterranean, four centuries of human habitation, use, and abuse have created a trajectory of change being duplicated in estuaries throughout the country. Now subject to coordinated restoration efforts, the fate of Long Island Sound is a harbinger of the fate of coastal waters and economies everywhere. Six technical chapters summarize our knowledge about the human history, geology, physical oceanography, geochemistry, pollutant history, and biology and ecology of Long Island Sound. The last chapter identifies the linkages between science and environmental management, drawing extensively from hard-learned lessons on identifying threats and implementing strategies to confront them. This synthesis will be of interest to anyone engaged in the conservation and restoration of coastal ecosystems: scientists, students, managers, planners, and environmentalists. “This massive, multidisciplinary synthesis is a welcome contribution to the understanding of Long Island Sound, providing not only new knowledge, but
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- Author
- James S. Latimer, Mark A. Tedesco, R. Lawrence Swanson, Charles Yarish, Paul E. Stacey, Corey Garza
- Publisher
- Springer; Brand: Springer
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461461258
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Biology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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