Introduction : coral whisperers -- Corals in the Anthropocene : an interview with Peter Sale -- Coral scientists between hope and despair -- Prophet of doom : an interview with Ove Hoegh-Guldberg -- "And then we wept": coral death on record -- The pristine is gone : an interview with Jeremy Jackson -- Fragments of hope : nursing corals back to life -- Building bridges and trees : an interview with Ken Nedimyer -- Coral law under threat -- The Cinderella of corals : an interview with J. Murray Roberts -- The coral holobiont : hope and the genomic turn -- A super coral scientist : an interview with Ruth Gates -- Conclusion : coral scientists on the brink -- List of interviews.
Summary:
"In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world's precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today's coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral-reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans. Coral Whisperers captures a critical moment in the history of coral-reef science. Based on over one hundred interviews with leading scientists and conservation managers, Irus Braverman documents a community caught in an existential crisis and alternating between despair and hope. In this important new book, corals emerge as signs and measures, but also as a way out of the projected collapse of life on earth"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Critical environments : nature, science, and politics ; 3
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