Its broad approach makes the book a must-read for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as coastal management and marine spatial planning practitioners, and for researchers in the fields of geography, anthropology, history of science, human and social ecology, and environmental and development studies.
Marion Glaser is a Research Group Leader at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany. In over three decades in development cooperation and research in Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Bangladesh and Belize, she was also active in several global coastal and ocean science projects, and served as Vice President of the German Society for Human Ecology. Her current research focuses on sustainability transformations with special interest in coastal livelihoods, equity and transdisciplinary methods.