About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Ch 1: Introduction -- Ch 2: Ocean Studies -- Part I: Issues -- Ch 3: The Coastal Zone: An Ecosystem Under Pressure -- Ch 4: Climate Change and the Ocean -- Ch 5: Fisheries and Disheries Science in Their Search for Sustainability -- Ch 6: Ocean Studies for Offshore Industry -- Ch 7: Marine Information for Shipping and Defense -- Part II: Tools and Approaches -- Ch 8: Operational Oceanography -- Ch 9: A Vision of Oceanographic Instrumentation and Technologies in the Early Twenty-first Century -- Part III: Social and Institutional Challenges -- Ch 10: Framework of Cooperation -- Ch 11: Capacity Building -- Ch 12: The Vision to 2020 -- References -- About IOC, SCOR, and SCOPE -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Island Press Board of Directors 2002.