Marine Pollution: Current Status Impacts and Remedies

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Marine Ecology: Current and Future Developments

Publisher:Bentham Science

By: De-Sheng Pei and Muhammad Junaid

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While oceans are vast they represent a fragile resource that must be protected if we want to protect our livelihoods and our planet. Marine pollution has been a topic of concern for a long time and it has recently attracted the attention of scientists environmentalists economists politicians and journalists in mainstream media.

Besides providing food transportation routes and other resources the oceans serve as a heat absorbing sink which offsets the extreme heating effects of climate change but only to a limited degree. Pollution in marine environments such as the oceans poses a threat to coastal communities by affecting the fauna and flora in the environment and the health of the nearby population. This has a disruptive effect on the health and economy of these communities.

Marine Pollution: Current Status Impacts and Remedies emphasizes the limitations of marine resources that relevant environments provide. Readers will find chapters on methods to assess pollution as well as important information for identifying measuring and remediating various pollutants. The book also covers some known pollutants (heavy metals organic pollutants microplastics) and ways to manage these substances. Other issues covered in the book include problems caused by invasive species and the ecological problems caused by pollutants which affect local fauna and flora.

This book will prove to be a useful resource for students researchers and policymakers who are working in environmental science marine conservation and allied fields.

Marine Ecology: Current and Future Developments brings forth contemporary issues in the study of marine environments. The scope of the series includes ecological toxicological and biological aspects of the topic. Each volume of the series focuses on a broad theme with reviews contributed by several experts in the field. The series is essential reading for environmental scientists ecologists conservationists and marine biologists.

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PDF ISBN: 978-981-14-1269-1

Publisher: Bentham Science

Publication date: 2019

Language: English

Pages: 500

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