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The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean de Olive Heffernan

The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean

Autor Olive Heffernan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iul 2025

În volumul The High Seas, Olive Heffernan propune o analiză riguroasă a modului în care interesele economice și politice transformă ultimele zone sălbatice ale planetei în teatre de operațiuni pentru profit. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru aplicabilitatea sa practică în înțelegerea mecanismelor de guvernanță globală, oferind o bază solidă pentru profesioniștii din domeniul conservării mediului și al dreptului internațional care doresc să descifreze complexitatea spațiilor marine nesupravegheate.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea structurează progresia narativă, pornind de la biodiversitatea 'Zonei Crepusculare' și ajungând la mizele geopolitice ale resurselor genetice și ale mineritului submarin. Cuprinsul indică o acoperire exhaustivă: de la 'The Hunt for Dark Targets', ce explorează activitățile ilicite pe mare, până la 'The Cold Rush', care analizează apetitul statelor pentru resursele arctice. Această ediție reușește să integreze date științifice despre ecosisteme fragile cu o critică acerbă la adresa soluțiilor tehnologice nerealiste propuse de sectoarele de investiții.

Acoperă aceeași arie ca Protecting the Oceans Beyond National Jurisdiction de Robin Warner, dar cu o abordare mai narativă și centrată pe reportajul de investigație, față de rigoarea strict juridică a lui Warner. În timp ce The Blue Commons de Guy Standing se concentrează pe economia politică a mării, The High Seas aduce în prim-plan realitatea fizică a distrugerii mediului, oferind o perspectivă mai ancorată în ecologie. Putem afirma că lucrarea reprezintă un manifest documentat, esențial pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă de ce 'ultima frontieră' a Pământului are nevoie de un cadru de protecție urgent.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788163583
ISBN-10: 1788163583
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 134 x 202 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este o resursă esențială pentru specialiștii în politici de mediu și studenții la drept internațional. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a pericolelor ascunse sub suprafața oceanelor, de la mineritul de mare adâncime la bioprospectarea nereglementată. Este o lectură necesară pentru a înțelege cum 'lăcomia' și 'ambiția' dictează viitorul ecosistemelor marine globale, oferind în același timp soluții bazate pe conservare, nu doar pe exploatare.

Despre autor

Olive Heffernan este o jurnalistă de știință cu o experiență vastă în acoperirea subiectelor legate de oceane și schimbări climatice. Munca sa, publicată în prestigioase publicații internaționale, se concentrează pe intersecția dintre ecologia marină, tehnologie și politică. În The High Seas, ea își folosește expertiza pentru a expune realitățile dure ale zonelor marine neadministrate, transformând cercetarea complexă într-o investigație accesibilă și urgentă. Heffernan este recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a aduce la lumină subiecte de nișă din domeniul științelor naturii, oferindu-le o relevanță globală.

Notă biografică

Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Salon, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe. Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean was published in 2024. She lives by the sea in Ireland.

Descriere scurtă

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness... Shocking and starkly 'illuminating - a must-read' Gaia VinceThe ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet. But they are also home to exploitation on a scale that few of us can imagine. Here, industry and economic progress rule and lax enforcement and apathy are the status quo. Out of sight and often out of mind, a battle rages to control, profit from, protect, or obliterate the world's largest, wildest commons. Heffernan sets sail on a journey to uncover the truth behind deeply exploitative fishing practices, investigate the potentially devastating impact of deep-sea mining, and hold to task the Silicon-valley interventionists whose solutions to climate change are often wildly optimistic, radically irresponsible or both. The result is a forceful and deeply researched manifesto calling for the protection and preservation of this final frontier - the last vestiges of wilderness on Earth.

Recenzii

Profoundly informed, passionately written and thrillingly adventurous, Heffernan's book is both a masterful study in natural history and a forensic survey of the forces and activities that could cause irreparable harm
Fascinating and deeply researched ... [Heffernan] serves as our endlessly knowledgeable guide to the wild depths of the ocean , making a clear case for its protection and preservation amid the ever- rapacious interventions of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and corporate mining businesses. We take the mysterious deep for granted: Heffernan shows that such complacency must end.
Compelling ... admirably clear-eyed, refusing the easy consolation of toothless treaties and mollifying pabulum from politicians
A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness, owned by us all and by no one. This is powerful and urgent reportage that rips the veil of romanticism to reveal a vast world of criminal and dangerous enterprise accelerating beyond our shores
Powerful reportage
In her bold investigative book, Heffernan takes the reader on a journey like no other...a must-read book that will speak to everyone
There's a lyrical quality to Dr Heffernan's description of the diversity of marine life, and an ease with which she alternates science with historical nuggets
With energy equal to her profound subject, Heffernan boards many ships and journeys from the Arctic to the Antarctic to bring us an illuminating portrait of a world we rarely see and barely understand - and of the hidden forces that threaten to wreck it
A powerful cri de coeur
On the surface the seas roll on as always. But below, much is changing. And much more is at stake as humans seek plunder and profit beyond the reach of nations. In The High Seas, Olive Heffernan ably takes us into the history, the present, and the future of this largest and most mysterious realm of the planet.
A comprehensive and disturbing investigation of the avarice and lawlessness that now afflict our ungoverned oceans; it took men and women a long time to comprehend the wonders of the deep but only a very brief period to begin their destruction. As to the cause of this oceanic crisis, The High Seas is clear ... this is a stark, grim story, succinctly told by Heffernan [and] it is hard to disagree with.
Heffernan's reporting reveals our human imprint everywhere in the oceans, from the surface to the seafloor, by deciphering the geopolitics, economics, environmental sciences, and morality behind our use of the high seas
This book is the essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas, written by someone who has done more than almost anyone on earth in the last few years to understand the problems we face, and the solutions that might be available.
The best introduction I have ever read to the biological, technical, and institutional issues connected with the High Seas and the exploitation of its resources. A gem of a book!
In the vein of Ian Urbina's The Outlaw Ocean and Helen Scales' The Brilliant Abyss comes Olive Heffernan's The High Seas: an exploration of the breakneck industrialization occurring in the global ocean today. In clear prose, Heffernan investigates the ongoing experiments to bend the high seas to society's will as well as the unknown benefits and risks that may result. An important, timely book
A vital book at a deeply contested moment in history for our oceans and humanity at large. With beautifully rendered portraits and a thoughtful examination of the science, Heffernan has accomplished something extraordinary: bringing sense and rhythm to the contested, perilous, and often chaotic realm of our most remote seas
Fast-paced, thoroughly reported and deeply disquieting
A wonderful and eye opening book ... [The High Seas] is an impressive and sweeping study, ranging masterfully across time and space
The High Seas features a huge array of stories, brilliantly encapsulated in one book ... it's a fantastic and chilling read that takes us on a remarkable journey
A powerful, detailed and important book
Olive Heffernan has written a sobering account of the threats to marine life [and] was certainly not content to splash in the shallows when researching this book. The High Seas doesn't sugar-coat the tough reality facing our oceans and Heffernan has delivered a passionate and persuasive polemic, one that often feels as shocking as a bucket of cold water to the face
Fascinating

Cuprins

  1. The Outer Sea
  2. Enter the Twilight Zone
  3. The Hunt for Dark Targets
  4. Treasures from the Deep
  5. The Interventionists
  6. A 'Near-Arctic' State
  7. The Last Frontier
  8. Genes, Drugs and Justice
  9. Deep Trouble
  10. The Cold Rush
  11. Paradise Lost
  12. Hope for the High Seas