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Response and Responsibility: Regulating Noise Pollution in the Marine Environment

2007
Pay-walled Journal Article

Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

Firestone, J. and Jarvis, C.

The ocean is becoming an increasingly noisy environment. With a rise in com-mercial shipping, resource extraction activities, and military-related activities,the underwater ocean environment is a virtual...
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Keywords: Policy, Underwater noise

Impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine life: Publication patterns, new discoveries, and future directions in research and management

2015
Open Access Journal Article

Ocean & Coastal Management

Williams, R., Wright A.J., Ashe E., Blight L.K., Bruintjes R., Canessa R., Clark C.W., Cullis-Suzuki S., Dakin D.T., Erbe C., Hammond P.S., Merchant N.D., O'Hara P.D., Purser J., Radford A.N., Simpson S.D., Thomas L., and Wale M.A.

Anthropogenic underwater noise is now recognized as a world-wide problem, and recent studies have shown a broad range of negative effects in a variety of taxa....
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Keywords: Anthropogenic, Conservation, Ecology, Marine, Ocean noise, Policy, Shipping