Marine Geography
Ocean Space and Sense of Place
- 1st Edition - February 5, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Barbara Bischof
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 1 5 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 1 5 7 - 9
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Request a sales quoteMarine Geography: Ocean Space and Sense of Place offers an innovative and comprehensive exploration of ocean spaces through the lens of geographic thought, establishing marine geography as a unique subdiscipline. It addresses the historical neglect of oceans in geography, providing core theories and approaches that can be applied to address geographic issues unique to this space, such as fisheries, blue economies, coastal development and management, mobilities and shipping, and maritime governance. Expanding traditional geographic concepts and incorporating the more-than-human elements inherent to this space, this work tweaks ways that geographic analysis can be applied to ocean systems in meaningful ways. This book explores mapping techniques and lays out the physical dynamics and scientific models that provide the contextual realities with which we engage these complex environments and explores how our land-based perspectives shape our interactions with the marine world. It assembles the innovative theoretical geographical frameworks being applied to address ocean spaces and provides the building blocks for establishing an ocean point of view. Filled with practical examples and foundational theories, this book serves as a vital resource for students, researchers, and anyone interested in bridging the gap between marine science and geography.
- Offers ways to define ocean geographies from within contexts of ocean systems rather than a view from land that is simply extended seaward
- Establishes a strategy to adapt or reframe core theories in both human and physical geography and proposes a start to aformal subdiscipline of marine and coastal geography
- Provides a picture of geographic features unique to ocean systems and lays the foundation for a distinct geography of marine spaces with which to confront issues in oceans (natural resource management, marine science and exploration, communication and trade, boundaries, governance, etc.)
College-level students of geography or any discipline that must consider coastal and ocean-inclusive spatial relationships of any kind, for example, natural resource management, mapping, and territorialization/boundary-making, environmental marine management, geopolitics, coastal development and management, science and technology studies.
- Marine Geography
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- References
- Preface
- Acronyms
- Introduction: Reframing geography for oceans
- 1 Why this book?
- 1.1 Geographic knowledge as setting the stage
- 2 The approach
- 2.1 Chapter overviews
- 3 Getting our feet wet: Your ocean
- References
- Chapter 1 Core challenges in establishing a marine geography
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 1.1 Gaps and divisions of ocean knowledge
- 1.1.1 Decoupling marine geography from marine science
- 1.1.2 Framing for a marine geography
- 1.2 Missing the boat: Origins and evolution of geographic thought
- 1.2.1 The default of geography: A land-biased point of view
- 1.3 Stretching the laws of geography
- 1.3.1 The first law of geography
- 1.3.2 The second law of geography
- 1.3.3 The third law of geography
- 1.3.4 Marine spatial planning and laws of geography at sea
- 1.4 Engaging spatialities of oceans: Boundaries, mobilities, distance, and depth
- 1.4.1 Fixed habitats, territory, and mobility
- 1.4.2 Fugitive resources, regional boundaries, and access rights
- 1.4.3 Places far and deep: Exploration, governance, and physics
- References
- Chapter 2 Adapting geography basics to ocean spaces
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 2.1 Ocean scales and perspectives
- 2.2 An ocean point of view
- 2.2.1 Reframing space, place, location, and time
- 2.2.2 People in place and visualizing space
- References
- Chapter 3 Representing ocean spaces: Maps and visualizations
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Early ideas of mapping territory: Seeds of an international law of the sea
- 3.1 Visual narratives of the global ocean
- 3.2 Resetting a perspective
- 3.3 Flattening the globe: Map projections and ocean space
- 3.4 Marine gazettement: Tracking place names and boundaries in ocean space
- References
- Chapter 4 The (im)practicalities of water: Models, movement, and volume
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 4.1 Visualizing the surface seascape
- 4.1.1 Templates of ocean models: The links to place
- 4.1.2 A first model to reveal the curious nature of oceans
- 4.2 Tracking and modeling movement in oceans: A systems of relative motions
- 4.2.1 Movement and models: Geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD)
- 4.2.2 Observations, applications, and models of oceans and weather and climate
- 4.2.3 Geophysical fluid dynamics and models in human geographies
- 4.3 Geographies of ocean noise: Soundscapes and acoustics
- 4.4 Getting to the bottom of it: Land beneath the sea
- 4.5 The ephemeral nature of water: Volumetric thinking and H2O geographies
- 4.5.1 Characteristics of H2O
- 4.5.2 A geography of fog
- 4.5.3 Sea ice geographies
- 4.6 Climate, water, and sea level
- References
- Chapter 5 Humans as a beast of land
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 5.1 Nature, people, and culture
- 5.2 Embodiment: The human body as sensing instrument
- 5.2.1 Biological limitations: Physiology and evolution
- 5.2.2 The human body as perceptive instrument
- 5.3 Environmental types as variables of embodied realities
- 5.3.1 Salutogenesis and place preference
- 5.3.2 Green vs. blue spaces: Nature, embodiment, and affect
- 5.3.3 Oceans and human health
- 5.3.4 Our grounded sense of mobility
- 5.4 Embodiment and affect in action
- 5.4.1 Ocean as distance_ A first experience
- 5.4.2 Ocean as affect: The concept of “stoke”
- 5.5 The ocean as an extreme space?
- References
- Chapter 6 Making marine geographies: Foundations, approaches, and knowledge organization
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 6.1 Geographic lenses for ocean spaces
- 6.1.1 Social constructions of oceans
- 6.1.2 Smooth and striated spaces
- 6.1.3 Beyond flat thinking: Volume geography
- 6.1.4 Fluid spaces: “Wet ontologies”
- 6.1.5 More-than-human geographies
- 6.2 Practical considerations of ocean research
- 6.2.1 Timing and environmental change
- 6.2.2 Processes of science_ Science and technology studies (STS)
- 6.3 Organizing geographies of oceans and coasts
- 6.4 Research variables and topical considerations
- References
- Chapter 7 Exploring geographies of oceans and coasts
- Abstract
- Keywords
- 7.1 Physical features and boundaries
- 7.1.1 Histogram and hypsometric curve
- 7.1.2 Gazettement: What’s in a name?
- 7.1.3 Thermohaline circulation and ocean currents
- 7.1.4 Global winds
- 7.1.5 Ocean depth zones
- 7.1.6 Water along the coast: Tides, waves, and rips
- 7.1.7 Salinity and salts
- 7.1.8 Living systems
- 7.2 Administrative boundaries and social affairs
- 7.2.1 Ocean territories and law of the sea
- 7.2.2 Maritime trade and commerce
- 7.2.3 Maritime rituals and taboos
- 7.2.4 Blue economies
- 7.3 Additional online interactive maps and ocean data sources
- 7.3.1 Global oceans data portals
- 7.3.2 Regional oceans data portals
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 5, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443291562
- eBook ISBN: 9780443291579
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Barbara Bischof
Barbara Bischof is a seasoned academic researcher, program manager, policy analyst, and science and technical communications specialist. She has extensive expertise and field experience in marine environmental science, specifically in marine and coastal conservation policy and management issues, research methodologies, project development and monitoring, policy compliance, geographic theory, and data management. She has published numerous papers in the area of marine science and geographic oceanography.
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