239-pages. Hardback. First edition. 1987.

Solid Waste Management and the Environment: The Mounting Garbage and Trash Crisis

Politics & Social Sciences

Schubel, J. R.

Neal, Homer A.

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

In its heyday, the Great South Bay provided a bounty of hard clams for the nation's table, income for a crusty crew of baymen, and recreation to countless New York City visitors escaping hot summer days in the city. What does the Bay offer today, after years of taking resources from the area and dumping back unwanted materials and wastes? The authors of The Great South Bay examine the geological origins and evolution of this important coastal water body. The book details the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics that make the Bay one of the most productive bodies of water in the world. It searches history for evidence of the first assaults on the Bay by man's early Long Island industries, from duck farms through today's stress, mainly coastal housing development. The policies that have contributed to the present conflicts of uses are also examined: people's insistence on building at the shoreline, the resulting pollution, and the persistent notion that the Bay's bounty and natural beauty should persist despite development. Additionally, it presents plans for management that offer hope for the Bay's survival. The Great South Bay offers a case study of a classic bay system bounded by a barrier beach and having restricted flow through barrier island outlets. It provides an overview of how the Bay was formed; how hurricanes, tides and general weather conditions affect it; how its sea grass beds serve as protective nursery grounds for juvenile shellfish; how harvesting of oysters and clams has changed over the years and how these human exploits have affected the area's productivity and its prognosis for a healthy future.

The Great South Bay (The Great South Bay Series)

Bell, Thomas M.

Travel

State Univ of New York Pr

In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College.The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality.This graceful overview joins geological, biological, and political perspectives of the Bay. The Bay we see today, Schubel notes, is only one of a long succession of estuaries, each with its own character. Descriptions of the past, present, and future dwell not only on social and geological changes, but also on politics, which, as Schubel makes clear, have a definite effect on how man studies and manages a resource like the Chesapeake Bay.

The Life & Death of the Chesapeake Bay

Sociology

Univ of Maryland Sea Grant College

The Future Chesapeake: Shaping the Future

The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary. After slow deterioration for several centuries, the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched in 1983 to restore it. After spending more than $24 billion, the results of the restoration program are disappointing. The Bay Program has arrested the decline of the Bay, but it has failed to achieve its restoration goals--something that will become more challenging with climate change. The rate of environmental change today is more rapid than at any time in the history of humanity. The concept of restoration--to return to an earlier time and condition--is an outmoded concept for coastal ecosystems like the Chesapeake Bay that are at the leading edge of change. A better strategy would be to focus on shaping the future Bay. While we cannot create the future Bay, we have many of the tools to shape it, tools that have never been used as a complement to existing efforts. Learn about the past and present of the Bay, how climate change will affect its future, and how we can intervene to shape the future of the Chesapeake.

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Archway Publishing

The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary. After slow deterioration for several centuries, the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched in 1983 to restore it. 
After spending more than $24 billion, the results of the restoration program are disappointing. 
The Bay Program has arrested the decline of the Bay, but it has failed to achieve its restoration goals-something that will become more challenging with climate change. 
The rate of environmental change today is more rapid than at any time in the history of humanity. The concept of restoration-to return to an earlier time and condition-is an outmoded concept for coastal ecosystems like the Chesapeake Bay that are at the leading edge of change. 
A better strategy would be to focus on shaping the future Bay. While we cannot create the future Bay, we have many of the tools to shape it, tools that have never been used as a complement to existing efforts. 
Learn about the past and present of the Bay, how climate change will affect its future, and how we can intervene to shape the future of the Chesapeake.

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Solid Waste Management and the Environment: The Mounting Garbage and Trash Crisis

The Great South Bay (The Great South Bay Series)

The Life & Death of the Chesapeake Bay

The Future Chesapeake: Shaping the Future

The Future Chesapeake: Shaping the Future