This book is based, on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Charles Sheppard, Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. Prof. Sheppard has worked extensively for a wide range of UN, governmental and aid agencies in tropical marine and coastal development issues. This conversation explores how Prof. Sheppard is trying to find a way through political shortsightedness, corporate greed and societal indifference to use his experience to make the planet a better place.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, All Too Relevant, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Watery Beginnings -The power of scuba diving II. Building A Reef -Coral, algae and time III. Gratuitously Unsustainable -The problem with humans IV. Towards Progress? -Leadership, policies and philanthropic foundations V. Climate Change -Two pernicious effects VI. What To Do? -The importance of marine spatial planning
