Guide to the new 'Blue Movement' that is seeking to conserve oceans and coasts around the Americas.
From the publisher's announcement:
A new environmental movement is emerging to help combat threats to America's oceans and coasts, with hundreds of local and regional groups as well as dozens of national and international organizations being formed. The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide represents a comprehensive guide to this new "Blue Movement."
This one-of-a-kind new reference details more than 2,000 organizations and institutions that are working to understand, protect, and restore our ocean and coastal areas. For each entry, the book gives contact information including phone and fax numbers, email addresses, web addresses and a brief description of program areas of interest. Along with the state-by-state listings of groups, the directory includes three detailed sections that identify relevant government agencies, academic marine programs, and marine and coastal parks and protected areas.
To be published biennially, The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide is a vital new resource for anyone interested in the growing community of people working to protect and restore our coastal lands and waters.
The Editor
DAVID HELVARG is a journalist turned activist and founder of the Blue Frontier Campaign, a broad-based effort to educate and mobilize people around a common vision of healthy, bountiful seas. He is author of Blue Frontier (W. H. Freeman, 2001) and War Against the Greens (Sierra Club, 1997).