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| Preface | |
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| Coastal Challenges | |
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| State of the coasts | |
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| Drivers for environmental change | |
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| The ocean commissions | |
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| Management goals and processes | |
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| Organization of the book | |
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| Policy Process | |
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| Problems | |
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| Solutions | |
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| Selection | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Wastewater | |
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| Sewage and disease: A problem | |
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| Sewage treatment: A solution | |
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| Making treatment a requirement: Selection and implementation | |
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| Did sewage treatment work? Evaluation | |
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| Unfinished business | |
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| Sector-based management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Oil | |
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| Oil resources: Origins and importance | |
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| Oil drilling technology | |
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| Environmental and social impacts of offshore oil | |
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| Law | |
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| The seaweed rebellion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dredging | |
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| The growth of shipping | |
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| Dredging processes | |
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| Environmental impacts | |
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| Law of dredging and disposal | |
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| Regulating the disposal of contaminated sediments | |
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| Gridlock | |
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| Enduring change? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Wetlands | |
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| The nature of coastal wetlands | |
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| The value of coastal wetlands | |
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| Uses and consequences | |
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| "No net loss"-a goal | |
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| One wetland resource-multiple agencies | |
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| Management practices | |
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| The coastal wetland program assessed | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing Coastal and Ocean Spaces | |
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| Uses of coastal lands and waters | |
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| Conflicts | |
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| The Coastal Zone Management Act | |
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| Other space-based coastal management programs | |
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| Spatial management techniques | |
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| Evaluation of state programs | |
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| Spatial planning and management of ocean waters | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ecosystem Governance | |
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| Nitrogen links among land/sea and society/nature | |
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| Ecosystem-based management in concept | |
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| Degree of change | |
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| Policy elements | |
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| Incremental change: Marine sanctuaries | |
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| Fundamental change: Ecosystem services | |
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| Summary | |
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| Watersheds and Bays | |
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| Evolution of river basin management | |
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| River/watershed management: An agency profile | |
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| Managing the landscape to preserve/restore bays | |
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| Watershed management for the Chesapeake Bay | |
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| Ecosystem management for watersheds and bays | |
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| Summary | |
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| Fisheries | |
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| Expansion of U.S. fisheries | |
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| Biological limits to the fishery | |
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| Fisheries management | |
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| The councils | |
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| Fisheries management as ecosystem governance | |
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| Incremental change | |
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| Fundamental change | |
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| Who decides? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ends and means | |
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| Sector-based management | |
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| Spatial management | |
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| Ecosystem-based management | |
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| Change | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |