At the global scale and in the broadest sense environmental management involves the oceans, freshwater systems, land and atmosphere, but following the sustainability principle of scale it can be equally applied to any ecosystem from a tropical rainforest to a home garden.
"As soon as I moved from Montana to Oregon," he said, "I immediately started writing more songs that involved the ocean.
But for international environmental groups, Pacific island nations and some members of the United States Congress, the shipment opens a more dangerous chapter, involving the ocean transport under what they call weak security of raw materials that could be used for nuclear arms.
Scenes involving the ocean appear throughout, starting and ending the film like bookends.
"Every decision involving the ocean also affects fish, wildlife and water quality with resulting costs or benefits for coastal communities, fisheries and tourism," she said in a statement.
The latest controversy involves the Ocean Grove Homeowners Association, which is trying to block local developers from converting the old Chopin Hotel into luxury condominiums.
There are other destabilizing feedbacks in the carbon cycle that involve the oceans.
And while the consummation she's devoutly wishing for is of the usual marital sort, his involves the letting of oceans of blood.
Bottom trawling, which involves raking the ocean floor for food on a huge scale, leaves behind wastelands where there had been complex ecosystems.
The isolation of marine viruses in the oceans often involves the concentration of large volumes of seawater.
