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Long Island Sound: A Socioeconomic Perspective

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Long Island Sound

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Long Island Sound and the contiguous upland areas on both sides of the waterway have a long and diverse history. Emphasizing the socioeconomic development of the Sound area from the time of Captain Adrian Block’s exploration in the early seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century, this chapter explores the Sound as a nautical highway for sailing vessels connecting the region with Boston, New York, the West Indies and Europe, the era of steam navigation and its relationship to tourism, land-use patterns beginning with Native Peoples, commercial and recreational fishing, twentieth century suburbanization, the quest for solutions to the region’s growing demand for energy, and contemporary environmental challenges.

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  1. Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, 10570, USA

    Marilyn E. Weigold

  2. Riverdale Country School, Bronx, NY, 10471, USA

    Elizabeth Pillsbury

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  1. Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA

    James S. Latimer

  2. US Environmental Protection Agency Long Island Sound Office, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

    Mark A. Tedesco

  3. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    R. Lawrence Swanson

  4. University of Connecticut, Stamford Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

    Charles Yarish

  5. New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, Great Bay National,Estuarine Research Reserve, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

    Paul E. Stacey

  6. Div. Science & Environmental Policy, California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Seaside, California, USA

    Corey Garza

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Weigold, M.E., Pillsbury, E. (2014). Long Island Sound: A Socioeconomic Perspective. In: Latimer, J., Tedesco, M., Swanson, R., Yarish, C., Stacey, P., Garza, C. (eds) Long Island Sound. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6126-5_1

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