[PDF] The Sea Shores Of Chagos eBook

Author : Valerie Ariel Van Haltern
Publisher : WingSpan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595945358

GET BOOK

Book II Song of Chagos: Hunger and Heroes, Songs Across the Sea A long sea voyage to a distant land after losing hearth and home... broken hearts adrift at sea... a storm of memories in the midst of treacherous weather... an imagination running wild releasing the bonds of a world entrapped by greed a future brewing with unknowns.... finding ways to live, called "surviving" Music, dreams and a call for justice... After the long sea passage from the Chagos Archipelago, Jean and mother, Rose, find new friends and old friends in Mauritius. They lay a path for "survival" which will guide them through decades of impossible odds. Book I Song of Chagos: Hearts in Exile Book II Song of Chagos: Hunger and Heroes, Songs Across the Sea Book III Song of Chagos: Hardship to Harmony, Hands United

Author : Charles Sheppard
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 012805204X

GET BOOK

World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Three: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts covers global issues relating to our seas, including a biological description of the coast and continental shelf waters, the development and use of the coast, landfills and their effects, pollutant discharges over time, the effects of over-fishing, and the management methods and techniques used to ensure continued ecosystem functioning. The relative importance of water-borne and airborne routes differ in different parts of the world is explored, along with extensive coverage of major habitats and species groups, governmental, education and legal issues, fisheries effects, remote sensing, climate change and management. This book is an invaluable, worldwide reference source for students and researchers concerned with marine environmental science, fisheries, oceanography and engineering and coastal zone development. Provides scientific reviews of regional issues, empowering managers and policymakers to make progress in under-resourced countries and regions Covers environmental issues arising from the human use of both the sea and its watershed Presents informed commentary on major trends, problems and successes, and recommendations for the future

Author : Charles Sheppard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1040016944

GET BOOK

This book is the story of the natural history of Chagos Archipelago, and of the efforts of many to get it recognized as an important and protected wildlife reserve. Exploring its immense natural riches and biodiversity, both on islands and in the marine environment, this book addresses competing claims to its resources, its politics, and the desire of some commercial and political parties to exploit the area. It is about the fight to conserve a wonderland of biodiversity and obtain its protection from exploitation, especially of its reefs and other marine life. This book shows the importance of the Chagos Archipelago and why so much research was done there. Rather than being a typical research book, this work presents research in a narrative form and describes the now substantial Government, UN, and legal interest in the archipelago since the UK was told to ‘decolonise’ it. It is also the story of our planet in miniature: the archipelago encapsulates much of the world’s conservation tribulations in a way we can much more easily understand. This narrative will explore the difficulties faced by the Chagos Archipelago, including displaced people, old and derelict industries (coconut in this case), the military, politics, rich and untouched ecosystems that some want to exploit, ruined habitats on land, climate change, and territorial claims. It will examine how all of these factors have affected the natural history, biodiversity, and conservation of the archipelago. With beautiful photography of the Chagos Archipelago coral reefs and islands, as well as graphs indicating their findings, this book offers professionals, researchers, academics, and students in conservation and biodiversity an insight into one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. It is also accessible for non‐academic readers with an interest in climate change, biodiversity, and the importance of conservation.

Author : Charles Sheppard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400759657

GET BOOK

The tropical UK Territories have extensive coral reefs. Huge parts of these areas are exceptionally rich, productive and diverse. Their marine biodiversity exceeds that of the UK itself, and several are already, or are planned to be, strictly protected. Some of these areas serve as reference sites for many other countries with damaged reefs and they are oases of tropical marine biodiversity in a fast-degrading world. This book reviews all of the UK reefs, from those scarcely known to those where substantial research has already been performed. ​

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

Author : David Vine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2011-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0691149836

GET BOOK

David Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.

Author : M. Schwartz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1243 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402038801

GET BOOK

This new Encyclopedia of Coastal Science stands as the latest authoritative source in the field of coastal studies, making it the standard reference work for specialists and the interested lay person. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach. This Encyclopedia features contributions by 245 well-known international specialists in their respective fields and is abundantly illustrated with line-drawings and photographs. Not only does this volume offer an extensive number of entries, it also includes various appendices, an illustrated glossary of coastal morphology and extensive bibliographic listings.

Author : Peter N. Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0472029010

GET BOOK

The Seabrings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the potential of thalassography---the study of the world made by individuals embedded in networks of motion. As Peter N. Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange relations; networks; and, above all, materiality, both literally and figuratively. The Sea focuses not on questions of discipline and professionalization as much as on the practice of scholarship: the writing, and therefore the planning and organizing, of histories of the sea.