
The Future Chesapeake
Shaping the Future
$71.93
- Hardcover
220 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2021
Summary
The Chesapeake Bay is the nation’s largest estuary. After slow deterioration for several centuries, the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched in 1983 to restore it.
After spending more than $24 billion, the results of the restoration program are disappointing.
The Bay Program has arrested the decline of the Bay, but it has failed to achieve its restoration goals-something that will become more challenging with climate change.
The rate of environmental change today is mor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781665704410 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1665704411 |
| Author: | J.R. Schubel |
| Publisher: | Archway Publishing |
| Imprint: | Archway Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 220 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 413g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
J.R. Schubel
J. R. Schubel has worked throughout his career at the interfaces of coastal science-management-policy. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, where he became associate director of its Chesapeake Bay Institute. He has published widely on the Chesapeake Bay and wrote and illustrated The Living Chesapeake. He left Johns Hopkins to become dean of Stony Brook University’s Marine Sciences Research Center. For three of his twenty years at Stony Brook, he served as provost. He holds the title of Stony Brook distinguished service professor emeritus. He is president emeritus of the New England Aquarium and the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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