BALTIMORE, June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Inspired by his love of Chesapeake Bay and the challenges to efforts to restore it, J. R. Schubel explores a different approach. Schubel shares his ideas on how shaping the future Chesapeake could pay bigger dividends than continuing to try to restore it to an earlier condition in his new environmental science book "The Future Chesapeake: Shaping the Future" (published by Archway Publishing).
In his book, Schubel discusses the past and present of the Bay, how climate change will affect its future, and how people can intervene. The author contends that the concept of restoration may be ineffective because the rate of change today is more rapid than at any time in human history and coastal ecosystems are at the leading edge of environmental change. He suggests that a better focus for stopping the Chesapeake Bay's deterioration is to focus efforts on shaping the future Bay. Schubel details several of the tools people have to shape the Bay's future that have yet to be used as a complement to existing efforts.
"We cannot restore the Chesapeake Bay to an earlier time and condition, but we can shape its future," Schubel says.
"The Future Chesapeake" is available for purchase online at the Archway link above, from Barnes & Noble and on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Chesapeake-Shaping/dp/1665704411.
"The Future Chesapeake"
By J. R. Schubel
Hardcover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 220 pages | ISBN 9781665704410
Softcover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 220 pages | ISBN 9781665704403
E-Book | 220 pages | ISBN 9781665704397
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
J. R. Schubel has worked throughout his career at the interfaces of coastal science-management-policy. He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, where he became associate director of its Chesapeake Bay Institute. He has published widely on the Chesapeake Bay and wrote and illustrated "The Living Chesapeake." He left Johns Hopkins to become dean of Stony Brook University's Marine Sciences Research Center. For three of his 20 years at Stony Brook, he served as provost. He holds the title of Stony Brook distinguished service professor emeritus. He is president emeritus of the New England Aquarium and the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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