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- Provides information on the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to modern environmental problems of the oceans
- Presents the state-of-the-art ocean pollution on a physical, chemical, biological, and legal levels
- Values the individualized effect of the following pollutants on the ocean: oil and hydrocarbon products including microplastics, ocean acidification, wastewater discharged, thermal, nuclear, and biological pollution associated with alien species invasion
- Offers an analysis of the causes, sources, and current amount of pollution of the oceans by microplastics as a particularly stable and long-term decomposing pollutant
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book provides information on the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to modern environmental problems associated with ocean pollution with a particular focus on the Back Sea. The oceans are a vast but fragile complex. In recent decades, it has become especially manifest when ocean pollution has reached an unparalleled situation. Meanwhile, not only the well-being of ecosystems depends on the state of ocean waters, but human civilization largely depends on the oceans as a consequence of environmental dependence.
This book examines the consequences of pollutants such as oil and hydrocarbon products (including plastics and microplastics), water acidification, sewage, wastewaters discharge into the ocean, thermal pollution, nuclear pollution, and biological pollution. Beyond the types of pollutants and their consequences, this book outlines the state of the art of the legal situation internationally regarding ocean pollution.The authors also show the current pollution of the inland seas, taking as an example of the Black Sea (anthropogenic and natural sources of pollution, its shelf, and shallow waters as well as international legislation). A part of the book analyzes the main types of environmental monitoring of the oceans and their role in solving ocean pollution problems with a particular interest in the Black Sea.
The book is of interest to specialists in ocean pollution, ecologists, oceanologists, students, and graduate students studying oceanography, marine ecology, current methods of environmental monitoring, and legal problems related to the oceans and seas pollution, as well as to anyone interested in modern problems of the oceans.
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Konstantin Pokazeev
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Shelf Hydrophysics Department, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
Elena Sovga
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Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the RAS, Moscow, Russia
Tatiana Chaplina
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pollution in the Black Sea
Book Subtitle: Observations about the Ocean's Pollution
Authors: Konstantin Pokazeev, Elena Sovga, Tatiana Chaplina
Series Title: Springer Oceanography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61895-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61894-0Published: 20 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61897-1Published: 20 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61895-7Published: 19 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-7677
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7685
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 213
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Earth System Sciences, Water, general