Download or read book The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World written by William C. G. Burns and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of fifteen chapters by prominent authorities in the fields of cetacean law, policy, and science. The overarching purpose of the book is to assess the challenges faced by cetacean species in the 21st century, and the role of legal, political, and scientific institutions to meet these challenges. The book also contains several chapters that address the abiding ethical questions dividing those who seek to continue to exploit cetaceans as resources and those who maintain that direct exploitation should be permanently banned on the grounds of sentience or intelligence. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.