This exciting new book grew out of an international symposium held at FAO, Rome
in July 2008, but it is not just a collection of papers from that symposium.
Rather, the publication brings together work on social-ecological marine
research that cuts across disciplines, identifies key common elements and
approaches that promote resilience of marine social-ecological systems in the
face of global changes, and points to next steps.The book comprises
contributions on conceptual issues relating to social-ecological responses in
marine systems to global changes; offers illustrative case studies of specific
examples of social-ecological responses in marine systems to significant
environmental changes manifested locally; develops a syntheses between natural
and social