Large Marine Ecosystems: Stress, Mitigation and Sustainability, Volume 5

Kenneth Sherman, Lewis M. Alexander, Barry D. Gold

Wiley, 1993 - Nature - 376 pages

The future is uncertain for the world's large marine ecosystems. These relatively narrow ocean zones produce nearly 95% of useable marine biomass, yet are becoming increasingly stressed by both natural and anthropogenic changes. The potential for consequent negative effects on global ecologies and economies has aroused major international concern. This state-of-the-art update on Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) represents a multidisciplinary effort to develop a more holistic approach to the research, monitoring, and management of marine resources. The contributors deal with the various environmental and human impacts of ocean productivity, providing scientific, legal and technological arguments for managing LMEs as multinational units in order to sustain the biomass yields of major coastal areas.

About the author

Kenneth Sherman was born in Toronto in 1950. He has a BA from York University, where he studied with Eli Mandel and Irving Layton, and an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto. While a student at York, Sherman co-founded and edited the literary journal "Waves."

From 1974-1975 he travelled extensively through Asia. He is a full-time faculty member at Sheridan College where he teaches Communications; he also teaches a course in creative writing at the University of Toronto.

In 1982, Sherman was writer-in-residence at Trent University. In 1986 he was invited by the Chinese government to lecture on contemporary Canadian literature at universities and government institutions in Beijing. In 1988, he received a Canada Council grant to travel through Poland and Russia. This experience inspired several of the essays in his book "Void and Voice" (1998).

Sherman, author of the acclaimed "Words for Elephant Man," and "The Well: New and Selected Poems," lives in Toronto with his wife, Marie, an artist.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Large Marine Ecosystems: Stress, Mitigation and Sustainability, Volume 5; AAAS publication, ISSN 0271-2229; Publication (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
• Editors: Kenneth Sherman, Lewis M. Alexander, Barry D. Gold
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 1993
• ISBN: 087168506X, 9780871685063
• Length: 376 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animals / Marine Life; Nature / Ecology; Science / General; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General