Transcript US coastal conditions

• National Coastal Condition Report
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/ncc
rfs.html
• America’s Living Oceans: Charting a
Course for Sea Change
http://www.pewoceans.org
• The US Ocean Commission on Ocean
Policy http://oceancommission.gov/
Coastal States Organization (CSO)
35 coastal states, commonwealths and territories
• http://www.coastalstates.org;
• http://www.coastalstates.org/pages/its.html
• http://ciceet.unh.edu/
report on 35 coastal state management issues
and technology/science needs
Identified coastal management issues:
Priority Coastal Management Issues
US Coastal Zone Management Act
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/
casebook/chap7_links.asp
http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/ab
out/czma.html#anchor206089
Acts of Congress
• Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and
Management Act, 1976 (MSA)
- Claim rights over EEZ, 200
nautical mile limit
- Establish 8 regional fisheries
management councils
- Used to promote long-term
sustainable use of marine
resource
ABOUT SCIENCE:
“Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about
them. As soon as things become too complex, science can’t deal with
them. The reason why physics can achieve such depth is that it restricts
itself to extremely simple things, abstracted from the complexity of the
world. As soon as an atom gets too complicated, maybe helium, they
hand it over to chemists. When problems become too complicated for
chemists, they hand it over to biologists. Biologists often hand it over to
the sociologists, and they hand it over to the historians, and so on.
But it’s a complicated matter: Science studies what’s at the edge of
understanding, and what’s at the edge of understanding is usually fairly
simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too
complicated. In fact even understanding insects is an extremely
complicated problem in the sciences. So the actual sciences tell us
virtually nothing about human affairs.” N.CHOMSKY