Turning the tide
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The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Report "Turning the Tide"
Author: Scotland. Scottish Executive
Publisher:
Published: 2006-11-14
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9780755950904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's report on the impact of fisheries on the marine environment 'Turning the Tide' provides a well-timed contribution to the growing integration of environmental and fisheries policies in Scotland, the UK and in Europe. This is the Scottish Executive response to the report.
Turning the Tide
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780101639224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Royal Commission report on protection of the marine environment focuses on the impact of marine fishing in the seas around the UK, both on fish populations and the wider ecosystem. It consider a range of issues including the role of the fishing industry and its growth over the last 50 years; the legal framework for the marine environment and fisheries, at the national, European and international levels; the impact of fishing and the legacy of overfishing; aquaculture fisheries; marine protected areas; improved fisheries management; and a system of marine spatial planning. The report concludes that, as a society, we give much lower priority to protecting our seas compared with the land, and over-fishing is a global problem which has led to the collapse of fisheries in many areas. This situation requires significant urgent change which recognises the need for sustainable fisheries management and avoids the degradation of our seas, placing it within the context of wider management of human activities in the marine environment. Recommendations made include: the introduction of a Marine Act to establish a statutory framework with strategic objectives for marine environmental protection; a move away from a presumption in favour of fishing rights to a precautionary approach which requires demonstration that fishing activity is environmentally sustainable; establishing a network of marine protected areas within the UK over the next five years, which would lead to 30 per cent of the UK's exclusive economic zone being closed to commercial fishing; and a change in the emphasis of research away from management of fish populations towards a wider focus on the marine environment.
Britain and the Sea
Author: Glen O'Hara
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-06-30
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1137073128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKO'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.
Food Policy
Author: Tim Lang
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0191015717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing availability, and feeding more mouths. In the 21st century, this policy mix is quietly becoming unstuck. In a world marred by obesity alongside malnutrition, climate change alongside fuel and energy crises, water stress alongside more mouths to feed, and social inequalities alongside unprecedented accumulation of wealth, the old rubric of food policy needs re-evaluation. This book explores the enormity of what the new policy mix must address, taking the approach that food policy must be inextricably linked with public health, environmental damage, and social inequalities to be effective. Written by three authors with differing backgrounds, one in political science, another in environmental health and health promotion, and the third in social psychology, this book reflects the myriad of perspectives essential to a comprehensive view of modern food policy. It attempts to make sense of what is meant by food policy; explores whether the term has any currency in current policy discourse; assesses whether current policies help or hinder what happens; judges whether consensus can triumph in the face of competing bids for understanding; looks at all levels of governance, across the range of actors in the food system, from companies and the state to civil society and science; considers what direction food policies are taking, not just in the UK but internationally; assesses who (and what) gains or loses in the making of these food policies; and identifies a modern framework for judging how good or limited processes of policy-making are. This book provides a major comprehensive review of current and past food policy, thinking and proposing the need for what the authors call an ecological public health approach to food policy. Nothing less will be fit for the 21st century.
Routledge Handbook of National and Regional Ocean Policies
Author: Biliana Cicin-Sain
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13: 1317658051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy. All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last two decades, the coastal nations covered in the book have undertaken concerted efforts to articulate and implement an integrated, ecosystem-based vision for the governance of ocean areas under their jurisdiction. This includes goals and procedures to harmonize existing uses and laws, to foster sustainable development of ocean areas, to protect biodiversity and vulnerable resources and ecosystems, and to coordinate the actions of the many government agencies that are typically involved in oceans affairs. The book highlights the serious conflicts of use in most national ocean zones and the varying attempts by nations to follow the prescriptions emanating from the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and the outcomes of the 1992, 2002, and 2012 sustainable development summits. The interrelationship among uses and processes in the coast and ocean requires that ocean governance be integrated, precautionary, and anticipatory. Overall, the book provides a definitive state-of-the-art review and analysis of national and regional ocean policies around the world.
Draft Marine Bill
Author: Bernan
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780104013533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Marine Bill was designed to establish a new UK-wide strategic system of marine planning to balance conservation, energy and resource needs, based on the principle of sustainable development and working with the devolved administrations. The Committee reports here reservations about the framework nature of the draft Bill. It was felt that too much of its policy is contained in secondary legislation or guidance. That there are significant areas of confusion of responsibility - between UK and international, especially EU, obligations; between devolved administrations; the many agencies and other bodies who will be involved in delivering the proposals in the Bill.
Beating Stress, Anxiety And Depression
Author: Jane Plant
Publisher: Piatkus
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0748111646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression that is sweeping the Western world is accompanied by huge social, economic and personal costs. This accessible and groundbreaking book is designed to help sufferers, their families and health professionals. The authors, both former sufferers, argue that the medical profession's current approach is not working. They dispel the fear and prejudice surrounding mental illness and present a new, effective programme for dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. They describe the successes that they and others have achieved through new treatment methods. You will discover your risk factors and how to reduce them, how mental health problems can be diagnosed more effectively and how to ensure the best possible treatment. They go on to present the 10 lifestyle factors that affect the likelihood of developing anxiety and depression, and reveal the 10 food factors that can improve mental well-being. BEATING STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION is essential reading for sufferers and their families.
Food Wars
Author: Tim Lang
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-16
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1317623142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy. The key theme of the importance of integrating human and environmental health has become even more pressing. In the first edition the authors set out and brought together the different strands of emerging agendas and competing narratives. The second edition retains the same core structure and includes updated examples, case studies and the new issues which show how these conflicting tendencies have played out in practice over recent years and what this tells us about the way the global food system is heading. Examples of key issues given increased attention include: nutrition, including the global rise in obesity, as well as chronic conditions, hunger and under-nutrition the environment, particularly the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, water stress and food security food industry concentration and market power volatility and uncertainty over food prices and policy responses tensions over food, democracy and citizenship social and cultural aspects impacting food and nutrition policies.
The UK Government's Response to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's Twenty-fifth Report
Author: Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780101684521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's 21st report "Turning the tide - addressing the impact of fisheries on the marine environment" was presented to Parliament in December 2004. This document is the Government's formal response to that report. The "Turning the Tide" report is based on a study commissioned by the Royal Commission on the environmental impacts associated with a variety of commercial fishing activities in the North East Atlantic, particularly those fisheries regulated by the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy and the waters around the UK. The study examined trawling, drift netting, industrial fishing and fish farming as well as regulatory and management practices, the institutional and legal framework and the state of marine science and data, including social and economic dimensions. The Government accepts the Report's main conclusion that a new framework for managing the marine environment is needed.
