Sea Has Many Voices: Oceans Policy for a Complex World 9780773564251

The Sea Has Many Voices is the first Canadian book to examine oceans policy in the making. The contributors believe that

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Sea Has Many Voices: Oceans Policy for a Complex World
 9780773564251

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Oceans Policy for a Complex World / CYNTHIA LAMSON
PART ONE: COMPETING INTERESTS
1 Resource Crisis: The Struggle in the Atlantic Fishery
2 Aquaculture: Canada's Cinderella Ocean-Resource Industry?
3 Atlantic Salmon: Recreational versus Commercial Interests
4 Competitive Edges: The Politics of Ports and Shipping
5 The Eight-Billion-Dollar Question: Nuclear Submarines and Maritime Defence Policy
6 Techtronics: Canada's Ocean-Science Industries
PART TWO: CONFLICTING VALUES
7 When You Can't Build Fences: The West Isles Marine-Park Proposal
8 No Rigs: Controversy on Georges Bank
9 Building Alliances to Protect South Moresby Island
10 Managing the Arctic Ocean in Nunavut: The Inuit Land-Claim Settlement
PART THREE: CALCULATING THE RISKS
11 Murky Waters: Pollution in Three Atlantic Harbours
12 The St Lawrence Beluga Whale: Will It Survive?
13 Toxic-Shellfish Crisis: 1987 and Beyond
PART FOUR: CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO
14 Sentinels and Saviours: Canadian Environmental Groups and Ocean Politics
15 Getting MEQ on Political Agendas
16 The Quest for Excellence: Funding Marine- Science Research and Development
Prospects: Towards a Three-Oceans, One-Nation Policy
Contributors

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