1st Edition

Our Common Seas Coasts in Crisis

By Don Hinrichsen Copyright 1990
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned development, all of which are busily... Read more
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. On Distant Shores 2. The Regional Seas of the Developing World 3. The Mediterranean Sea 4. The Persian Gulf 5. The Wider Caribbean 6. The South Pacific 7. The South-east Pacific 8. East Asia 9. South Asia 10. Eastern Africa 11. West and Central Africa 12. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden 13. What Future for Regional Seas? Bibliography Index

Biography

Hinrichsen, Don