"This volume provides a blueprint for managing the challenges of ocean conservation using marine historical ecology--an area of study evolving as societies confront ocean ecosystems that are being drastically altered by human activity. Applying the practice of historical ecology developed in terrestrial environments, Marine Historical Ecology guides the creation of historical baselines for marine species and ecosystems in order to inform and improve conservation and management efforts"--Provided by publisher.

John N. Kittinger, PhD, is a Social Science Fellow with the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University and a Science Advisor for Conservation International’s Hawai?i Fish Trust Program.Loren McClenachan, PhD, is the Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Colby College.Keryn B. Gedan, PhD, is a lecturer in the Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology Graduate Program at University of Maryland.Louise K. Blight, PhD, is a marine science specialist at World Wildlife Fund in Vancouver, Canada, and the owner of Procellaria Research and Consulting.