Main description:

Oceans and Human Health: Opportunities and Impacts, Second Edition explores interactions between oceans and human health (OHH), including benefits, opportunities, and risks. It combines marine biology, oceanography, toxicology, natural products chemistry, environmental microbiology, urban planning, epidemiology, and public health to help readers understand how oceans and human populations affect each other.

Written and edited by an international and interdisciplinary team of experts, the book highlights the benefits between oceans and humans, cultural and historic values, well-being, food, and medicines. Risks and negative human impacts, including climate change, ecosystem degradation, harmful algal blooms, and various forms of pollution are also covered.

The book then emphasizes tools and solutions for addressing these risks, from the scientific aspect of monitoring and measuring to the social aspect of community engagement and legal regulation. It concludes with a look at the future of Oceans and Human Health, and how individuals and communities around the world can act together to conserve this relationship. This is an interdisciplinary resource for researchers from numerous backgrounds, ranging from marine sciences, sustainability, evolution, and ecology.

Contents:

1. Overview of Oceans and Human Health

Section I: Ocean Benefits, Opportunities, and Resources 2. Ocean Ecosystem Services 3. Humans and the Sea: Cultural and Historic Value 4. Food from the Sea 5. Medicines from the Sea 6. Marine Biotech 7. Marine Models 8. Contact with marine blue spaces for human health and well-being

Section II: Ocean Risks and Negative Human Impacts 9. Ocean Ecosystem Degradation and Human Populations 10. Climate Change and the Ocean 11. Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) 12. Microbial and Antimicrobial Resistance 13. Chemical Pollution and the Ocean 14. Plastics, Behavior Change, and the Ocean 15. Radiation and the Ocean 16. Estimating the impact of Oceans on Human Health: the potential value of a burden of disease approach

Section III: Other Aspects 17. The People of the Seas and the Seas of the People 18. Ocean Sectors

Section IV: Necessary Tools 19. Observing and Monitoring the Ocean 20. Monitoring and Measuring Human Health and Wellbeing 21. Ocean Law, Policies, and Regulation 22. Community Engagement for Ocean and Human Health

Section V: Future Scanning and Innovations 23. Horizon Scan of Oceans and Human Health

Conclusions/Recommendations 24. Ocean Stewardship