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acidifying ocean
Author_Irus Braverman
catalyst for action
catastrophic
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conservation managers
coral reef science
coral reefs
coral scientists
critical moment
despair
environmental catastrophe
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existential crisis
front lines of ruin
global bleaching event
hope
important coral reef ecosystems
leading scientists
marine life
pollution
rapidly warming oceans
saving the coral reefs
Product details
- ISBN 9780520298842
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans. Coral Whisperers captures a critical moment in the history of coral reef science. Gleaning insights from over one hundred interviews with leading scientists and conservation managers, Irus Braverman documents a community caught in an existential crisis and alternating between despair and hope. In this important new book, corals emerge not only as signs and measures of environmental catastrophe, but also as catalysts for action.
Irus Braverman is Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York. She is the author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (2012), and Wild Life: The Institution of Nature (2015).
