Shifting baselines : the past and the future of ocean fisheries
2011
Jackson, Jeremy B. C. |
Alexander, Karen |
Sala, Enric |
"Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expectations, in which each generation regards a progressively poorer natural world as normal.