Reference Library
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General Library
Whales' Bones of the British Isles
Redman, Nicholas [Teddington]: Redman Publishing, 2004. xxii, 417p, illus., maps, hardcover. ISBN 0-9545800-0-1. £ 30.00. Order from: Nicholas Redman, 237 Harrowdene Gardens, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 ODP, UK. A pioneering work on the decorative and functional uses of large cetacean bones, documenting almost 1,000 large-whale bones in over 650 locations in the UK, evaluating over 1,100 written sources and hundreds of pictures and hundreds of interviews with local people, the result of 30 years of research and travels to almost every single one of these locations. A companion volume on whale bones outside the UK is in preparation, so references to them from any part of the world are welcomed by the author.
Whaling Around the World
Happynook, Kathy (editor) WCW Publications; 8.5 x 5.5 format, 27 colour photographs, 5 black & white photographs, 12 illustrations, glossary, 74 pages, $10.00.
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Whaling Around the World looks at coastal communities that rely on the cultural, nutritional and economic sustenance whaling provides and examines whaling traditions and techniques in Canada, the Caribbean, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Philippines, Russia, and the United States. Photos and illustrations depict hunting from skin boats and small coastal fishing vessels, and the preparation of whale meat and its by-products. ... more .
The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World.
William C.G. Burns and Alexander Gillespie (editors) 2003. The thirteen chapters in this book are written by authors who variously support sustainable whaling or who oppose whaling. Chapters are grouped under the headings: the future of the IWC; the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) and WCW; the threat to small cetaceans; anthropogenic threats to cetaceans; the ecosystem role of cetaceans. Appendices contain the text of various international treaties affecting cetaceans, including the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW).
xxvii + 457 pp. Transnational Publishers, Ardsley, N.Y.
ISBN 1-57105-262-3.
The First Printed German Whaling Journal.
Christian Bullen's Daily Record of a Hamburg Whaling Voyage to Spitsbergen and Northern Norway in the Year 1667. The earliest printed German whaling journal is again available to the interested public. In his 1948 "Bibliography of whaling", Jenkins had noted that the only extant copy known was in the Bremen Municipal Library. Sadly, this copy has been missing since World War Two. Now another copy has been discovered and in addition, a completely unknown second edition of 1677.... More
Embracing the Earth's Wild Resources - A Global Conservation Vision
Eugene Lapointe, President - IWMC World Conservation Trust
Former Secretary-General of CITES (1982-1990)... more
Now available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE WHALING REGIME
Friedheim, Robert L. (editor), 2001. x + 382 pp. Chapter titles:
The IWC as a Contested Regime;
A New Whaling Agreement and International Law;
Whales, the IWC, and the Rule of Law;
Science and the IWC;
Is Money the Root of the Problem? Cultural Conflict in the IWC;
Food Security, Food Hegemony, and Charismatic Animals;
Distorting Global Governance: Membership, Voting, and the IWC;
Negotiating in the IWC Environment;
The Whaling Regime: "Good" Institutions but "Bad" politics?;
Summing Up: Whaling and its Critics;
Whale Sausage: Why the Whaling Regime Does Not Need to be Fixed;
Fixing the Whaling Regime: A Proposal.
University of Washington Press, Seattle & London. ISBN 0-295-98088-5
CCI Press, Edmonton, Alberta. ISBN 1-896445-18-7
Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Nuttall, Mark 1998. [Chapter 5: Hunting and the right to development: The case of aboriginal subsistence whaling, pp. 97-123]. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam. ISBN 90-5702-354-7.
Knowledge of Whales and Whaling and Opinions of Minke Whale Harvest among Residents of Australia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Mark Damian Duda et al. (1998).
This report presents the results of surveys carried out in four countries regarding public knowledge of whales and whaling. The focus of the survey in each case was to assess peoples' knowledge concerning the current status of minke whale populations and their attitude toward the sustainable harvest of this species.
iv + 28 pp.. figures, tables. Responsive Management National Office, P.O. Box 389, Harrisburg, Virginia, USA.
Americans' Opinions of Minke Whale Harvest.
Mark Damian Duda et al. (1997).
A public opinion poll carried out to assess U.S. residents' awareness and knowledge of whale populations, current whaling regulations, sustainable use concepts, opinions on and attitudes toward use of non-endangered whales and other animals, and attitudes toward whaling as it relates to cultural traditions and dietary needs. The questions were designed to elicit levels of public support or opposition in the U.S. to the sustainable harvest of minke whales.
ii + 28 pp., figures, tables. Responsive Management National Office, P.O. Box 389, Harrisburg, Virginia, USA.
Elephants and Whales: Resources for Whom?
Freeman, Milton M.R. & Urs P. Kreuter (editors) 1994. pp. 1-37, 143-315. Chapters on Faroese, Greenlandic, and Norwegian whaling, science and trans-science in the whaling debate, whose whale is it?, whaling and whale watching in Norway, whales as a cultural resource, and attitudes to whales and whaling in six countries. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, Basel, Switzerland. ISBN 2-88449-011-6
Whaling: A sustainable use of Natural Resources or a Violation of Animal Rights?
Skåre, Mari 1994. Environment 36(7):12-20, 30-37 (with commentaries by O.R.Young, K.Mulvaney, J.H.Barton, E.M.Green & S.K.Katona).
Community-based Whaling in the North.
Arctic Institute of North America 1993. Special Issue of Arctic 46(2):iii + iv, 97-174.
Public Attitudes to Whales: Results of a Six-country Survey.
Milton M.R. Freeman and Stephen R. Kellert (1992).
The results of public opinion surveys carried out by the Gallup polling organization in Australia, England, Germany, Japan, Norway and the U.S. The poll surveyed public attitudes to whaling and whale conservation and the acceptability of using various animals as food, as well as peoples' knowledge about whales and whaling, through answers to a series of forty questions. 28 pp, tables. Canadian Circumpolar Polar Institute, Edmonton. $10.00
North Atlantic Studies 1990. Whaling Communities.
Special Issue of North Atlantic Studies 2(1-2)3-217
The History of Modern Whaling.
Tonnesen, J.N & A.O. Johnsen 1982. University of California Press, Berkeley CA.
Aboriginal/Subsistence Whaling (with special reference to the Alaska and Greenland fisheries)
. Donovan, G.P. (editor) 1982. Reports of the International Whaling Commission, Special Issue No. 4, Cambridge, UK.