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100	1		_aPerissi, Ilaria.
245	1	4	_aThe Empty Sea _h[electronic resource] : _bThe Future of the Blue Economy / _cby Ilaria Perissi, Ugo Bardi.
250			_a1st ed. 2021.
260			_aLondon _bSpringer _c2021
300			_aXXI, 203 p. 86 illus., 56 illus. in color. _bonline resource.
505	0		_aChapter1: Introduction: If a jellyfish stings you, there is a reason -- Chapter2: Man and the sea -- Chapter3: The war against the sea -- Chapter4: Understanding overshoot -- Chapter5: The blue economy -- Chapter6: Conclusion: The horror that came to Sarnath.
520			_aThe “Blue Economy” is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely, overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its resources, describing the so-called fisherman’s curse – or why fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea. Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceans’ sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including “fishing down” for untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem. How Neanderthals crossed the sea in canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra, discovered the “equations of fishing,” why it has become so easy to be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play “Moby Dick,” a simple board game that simulates the overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading this engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding relationship between humanity and the sea. .
650		0	_aEarth sciences.
650		0	_aWater.
650		0	_aHydrology.
650		0	_aPower resources.
650		0	_aEnvironmental sciences.
650		0	_aPhysics.
650		0	_aOceanography.
650		0	_aSustainability.
650	1	4	_aEarth Sciences.
650	2	4	_aWater.
650	2	4	_aNatural Resource and Energy Economics.
650	2	4	_aEnvironmental Physics.
650	2	4	_aOcean Sciences.
650	2	4	_aSustainability.
700	1		_aBardi, Ugo. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer Nature eBook
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783030518974
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783030518998
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783030519001
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51898-1
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