Research Catalog

Title

Marine protected areas for whales, dolphins, and porpoises : a world handbook for cetacean habitat conservation / Erich Hoyt.

Author

Hoyt, Erich.

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005.

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Details

Description

xx, 492 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

Hoyt (senior research fellow, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) presents an investigation into the status, process, and potential of instituting cetacean habitat protection, which has the primary goal of promoting the best possible marine protected areas (MPAs) for whales, dolphins, and porpoises. After outlining the principles of good habit conservation of good habitat conservation in chapters on the design and management of marine protected areas and strategies for protecting cetaceans to complement and supplement MPAs, the bulk of the text is given over to the status of conservation in 18 marine regions, along with survey accounts of some 500 proposed and operating MPAs in the regions.

Subject

• Cetacea > Conservation
• Cetacea > Habitat
• Marine parks and reserves
• marine parks
• Marine parks and reserves
• Cetacea
• Natuurbehoud
• Natuurreservaten
• Cétacés
• Animaux > Conservation des ressources
• Parcs marins

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-478) and index.

Contents

1. Ocean sanctuaries, marine reserves or parks? -- History of marine protected areas and cetaceans -- Ocean sanctuaries, marine reserves or parks, which one and why? -- Biosphere reserves, a strategy for thinking about MPAs -- Defining critical habitat -- Networks of MPAs -- High-seas MPAs -- 2. Why spotlight whales, dolphins and porpoises? -- Introduction -- Red list assessment of cetacean species, subspecies and populations -- The value of cetaceans for marine-based conservation -- 3. Creating better marine protected areas for cetaceans : steps toward the design, establishment and management of marine protected areas for cetaceans -- Basic principles -- Cetacean habitat needs -- The value of ecosystem-based management -- Steps to creating better MPAs for cetaceans -- 4. Strategies for protecting cetaceans to complement and supplement marine protected areas -- Conservation strategies for cetaceans besides MPAs -- Other pragmatic approaches -- 5. Habitat protection for cetaceans around the world : status and prospects -- Introduction -- Marine region 1 : Antarctic -- Marine region 2 : Arctic -- Marine region 3 : Mediterranean -- Marine region 4 : Northwest Atlantic -- Marine region 5 : Northeast Atlantic -- Marine region 6 : Baltic -- Marine region 7 : Wider Caribbean -- Marine region 8 : West Africa -- Marine region 9 : South Atlantic -- Marine region 10 : Central Indian Ocean -- Marine region 11 : Arabian Seas -- Marine region 12 : East Africa -- Marine region 13 : East Asian Seas -- Marine region 14 : South Pacific -- Marine region 15 : Northeast Pacific -- Marine region 16 : Northwest Pacific -- Marine region 17 : Southeast Pacific -- Marine region 18 : Australia-New Zealand.

ISBN

• 1844070638
• 9781844070633
• 1844070646
• 9781844070640

LCCN

2004016778

OCLC

• ocm56014629
• 56014629
• SCSB-1358678

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library