Marine Reserves: A Guide to Science, Design, and Use
By Jack Sobel
You can view this book's Amazon detail page here.
Tags: conservation, MPA, science
- Started reading:
- 4th July 2008
- Finished reading:
- 23rd August 2008
Review
Rating: 8
The director at the Ocean Conservancy, Jack Sobel presents the case for Marine Protected Areas in this internationally oriented book. He lays out cases all around the world, including the lessons learned so far. Using common sense language he details the necessity for MPA’s to protect seeding grounds and over-exploited species. The book goes into some detail of the research, social and governance issues involved in MPA’s and discusses the need for larger protected area and networks of protected areas. I really enjoyed, and agree with, the authors call for an ocean ethic to advance marine conservation and reserves. As the authors put it:
Science strongly supports the immediate need for a similar [to Aldo Leopold's land ethic] ocean ethic and a societal decision that fishing should not occur everywhere.
