Perspectives on Oceans Past

Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez is affiliated at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) in Germany.   Prof. Dr Bo Poulsen is affiliated at the Aalborg University in Denmark.

1. Of seascapes and people - multiple perspectives on oceans past.- 2. Acknowledging long-term ecological change: the problem of shifting baselines.- 3. Historical Fishing Communities.- 4. Archaeology as a tool for understanding past marine resource use and its impact.- 5. Human archives: Historians' methodologies and past marine resource use.- 6. On the need to study fishing power change: challenges and perspectives.-

7. Ecological indicators and food-web models as tools to study historical changes in marine ecosystems.- 8. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in historical perspective.- 9. Oral Histories: Informing Natural Resource Management Using Perceptions of the Past.- 10. A sea-change in the sea? Perceptions and practices towards sea turtles and manatees in Portugal’s Atlantic Ocean legacy.- 11. Fish is women`s business too – looking at marine resource use through a gender lens.