Diet for a Sustainable Ecosystem: The Science for Recovering the Health of the Chesapeake Bay and its People (Estuaries of the World)

This book explores a specific ecosystem in depth, in order to weave a story built on place and history. It incorporates the theme of a journey to help reveal the environment-human-health-food system-problem. While drawing on a historical approach stretching back to the American colonial era, it also incorporates more contemporary scientific findings. By crafting its story around a specific place, the book makes it easier for readers to relate to the content, and to subsequently use what they learn to better understand the role of food systems at the global scale. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Starting the Journey to a Sustainable Ecosystem and Healthy People (Benjamin E. Cuker, Kathryn MacCormick)....Pages 3-16 The Bay and Its Watershed: A Voyage Back in Time (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 17-30 Scientific Concepts for Understanding the Health of the Chesapeake Bay and Its People (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 31-52 Front Matter ....Pages 53-53 The Algonquin Food System and How It Shaped the Ecosystem and Interactions with the English Colonists of the Chesapeake Bay (Benjamin E. Cuker, Kathryn MacCormick)....Pages 55-66 A Fishing Trip: Exploiting and Managing the Commons of the Chesapeake Bay (Benjamin E. Cuker, Matthew Balazik)....Pages 67-94 Menhaden, the Inedible Fish that Most Everyone Eats (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 95-106 Blue Crabs: Beautiful Savory Swimmers of the Chesapeake Bay (Rochelle D. Seitz)....Pages 107-125 The Chesapeake Bay Oyster: Cobblestone to Keystone (Kimberly S. Reece, Eugene M. Burreson, Deidre M. Gibson, Sierra S. Hildebrandt, Ileana Fenwick)....Pages 127-153 Passenger Pigeon and Waterfowl: Flights to Extinction and Not (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 155-174 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 The Journey from Peruvian Guano to Artificial Fertilizer Ends with Too Much Nitrogen in the Chesapeake Bay (Benjamin E. Cuker, Jeffery Cornwell)....Pages 177-197 Pesticides Bring the War on Nature to the Chesapeake Bay (Benjamin E. Cuker, Indu Sharma, Kendra Dorsey, Olivera Stojilovic, Nefertiti Smith, Andrew Justice)....Pages 199-217 Livestock and Poultry: Other Colonists Who Changed the Food System of the Chesapeake Bay (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 219-244 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 Instead of Eating Fish: The Health Consequences of Eating Seafood from the Chesapeake Bay Compared to Other Choices (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 247-268 Sugar Twice Enslaves: Consequences for the People of the Chesapeake Bay (Benjamin E. Cuker, Michelle Penn-Marshall)....Pages 269-286 Reversing the Eutrophication of the Chesapeake Bay and Its People (Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 287-308 Finishing the Journey: Wastewater, a Misplaced Resource in the Environment (Carie Curry-Cutter)....Pages 309-323 Plastic Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay: The Food System and Beyond (Robert C. Hale, Meredith Evans Seeley, Benjamin E. Cuker)....Pages 325-348 Front Matter ....Pages 349-349 A New Food System for the Chesapeake Bay Region and a Changing Climate (Benjamin E. Cuker, Kari St. Laurent, Victoria J. Coles, Dawn Gerbing)....Pages 351-373 An Organic-Based Food System: A Voyage Back and Forward in Time (Martin Kaufman)....Pages 375-395 What Nature, Politics and Policy Demand of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Food System (Bill Matuszeski)....Pages 397-405 Ethics and Economics of Building a Food System to Recover the Health of the Chesapeake Bay and Its People (Benjamin E. Cuker, Karen Davis)....Pages 407-430