Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans

The oceans face multiple threats, including climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Rowan Wright provides a radical alternative to traditional ocean conservation approaches in her book Future Sea. She argues for a 100 percent ocean protection strategy that would end destructive industrial activities, safeguard marine biodiversity, and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive. Wright highlights existing international laws that can underpin this strategy and provides inspiring stories of communities and countries using ocean resources wisely. She calls for systemic change and encourages anyone to take steps toward safeguarding the oceans and their extraordinary wildlife.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 14 October 2022
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

The world's oceans face numerous threats, including climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. With the immensity of these challenges and the oceans themselves, we may wonder what more can be done to stop their decline and better protect the sea and marine life. Such widespread environmental threats call for a simple but significant shift in reasoning to bring about long-overdue, elemental change in the way we use ocean resources.

In Future Sea, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Rowan Wright provides the tools for that shift. Questioning the underlying philosophy of established ocean conservation approaches, Rowan Wright lays out a radical alternative: a bold and far-reaching strategy of 100 percent ocean protection that would put an end to destructive industrial activities, better safeguard marine biodiversity, and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive along coasts and in seas around the globe.

Future Sea is essentially concerned with the solutions and not the problems. Rowan Wright shines a light on existing international laws intended to keep marine environments safe that could underpin this new strategy. She gathers inspiring stories of communities and countries using ocean resources wisely, as well as of successful conservation projects, to build up a cautiously optimistic picture of the future for our oceans—counteracting all-too-prevalent reports of doom and gloom.

A passionate, sweeping, and personal account, Future Sea not only argues for systemic change in how we manage what we do in the sea but also describes steps that anyone can take to help protect the oceans. By understanding and enforcing these protections, we can ensure that future generations will inherit a healthy and thriving ocean ecosystem.

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226824086