Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Bowhead Whaling, Population Status and Alternative Biological Resources, Report of the Wildlife Panel at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Meeting on Aboriginal/Subsistence Whaling, 5-9 February
Author: Aboriginal/subsistence Whaling (with Special Reference to the Alaska and Greenland Fisheries)
Author: International Whaling CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This volume contains the reports of three panels of experts called in by the IWC to examine three aspects of aboriginal subsistence whaling: I) Wildlife; II) Nutrition; III) Cultural Anthropology; Although largely called in response to the Alaskan bowhead whale fishery the volume also contains valuable information on the Greenlandic fisheries.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Author: Dolphins, Whales, and Porpoises
Author: Randall R. ReevesPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831706564
Category : Cetacea
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Arctic Legal Regime for Environmental Protection
Author: Linda NowlanPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831706375
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
For many years, concerns have been expressed about environmental issues in the Arctic. While the Arctic region, unlike Antarctica, has been inhabited for thousands of years, it is under unique threat because of its vulnerability toward resource exploitation and the deposition of various airborne pollutants. With its varied populations, and with eight Nations asserting territorial interests, the Arctic needs a careful approach to its protection and development. This report describes the current Arctic environmental legal regime. It also discusses the possibility of negotiating a sustainability treaty for the Arctic with high standards of environmental protection similar to those in the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. It is hoped that this review of the legal and policy contrasts between the Arctic and Antarctic can help in the consideration of future directions for the Arctic legal regime.
Arctic Human Development Report
Author: Joan Nymand LarsenPublisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9289338830
Category : Arctic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
The goals of the second volume of the AHDR – Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages – are to provide an update to the first AHDR (2004) in terms of an assessment of the state of Arctic human development; to highlight the major trends and changes unfolding related to the various issues and thematic areas of human development in the Arctic over the past decade; and, based on this assessment, to identify policy relevant conclusions and key gaps in knowledge, new and emerging Arctic success stories. The production of AHDR-II on the tenth anniversary of the first AHDR makes it possible to move beyond the baseline assessment to make valuable comparisons and contrasts across a decade of persistent and rapid change in the North. It addresses critical issues and emerging challenges in Arctic living conditions, quality of life in the North, global change impacts and adaptation, and Indigenous livelihoods. The assessment contributes to our understanding of the interplay and consequences of physical and social change processes affecting Arctic residents’ quality of life, at both the regional and global scales. It shows that the Arctic is not a homogenous region. Impacts of globalization and environmental change differ within and between regions, between Indigenous and non-Indigenous northerners, between genders and along other axes.
Gillnets and Cetaceans
Author: William F. PerrinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Marine Mammal Welfare
Author: Andy ButterworthPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319469940
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Marine mammals attract human interest – sometimes this interest is benign or positive – whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals. However, there are many forces operating to affect adversely the lives of whales, seals, manatees, otters and polar bears – and this book explores how the welfare of marine mammals has been affected and how they have adapted, moved, responded and sometimes suffered as a result of the changing marine and human world around them. Marine mammal welfare addresses the welfare effects of marine debris, of human traffic in the oceans, of noise, of hunting, of whale watching and tourism, and of some of the less obvious impacts on marine mammals – on their social structures, on their behaviours and migration, and also of the effects on captivity for animals kept in zoos and aquaria. There is much to think and talk about – how marine mammals respond in a world dramatically influenced by man, how are their social structures affected and how is their welfare impacted?
Florida Manatee Recovery Plan
Author: Aboriginal/subsistence Whaling (with Special Reference to the Alaska and Greenland Fisheries)
Author: International Whaling CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This volume contains the reports of three panels of experts called in by the IWC to examine three aspects of aboriginal subsistence whaling: I) Wildlife; II) Nutrition; III) Cultural Anthropology; Although largely called in response to the Alaskan bowhead whale fishery the volume also contains valuable information on the Greenlandic fisheries.