Foreword by Larry Marshall Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1: Introduction -- Bruce Mapstone Section 1: Australia's marine estate 2: Australia's ocean currents -- Stephen R Rintoul, Ming Feng, Nick J Hardman-Mountford and Eric Raes 3: The living ocean -- Alan Williams, Nicholas Bax and Karen Gowlett-Holmes 4: Geology beneath our oceans -- Joanna M Parr, Andrew Ross 5: The oceans and our climate -- John Church, Wenju Cai, Guojian Wang, and Andrew Lenton 6: The oceans and our lives -- Sean Pascoe, Toni Cannard, Natalie Stoeckl, Ian Cresswell, Samantha Paredes and Amar Doshi 7: The blue economy -- Sean Pascoe, Toni Cannard, Ian Cresswell, Natalie Stoeckl, Amar Doshi and Samantha Paredes 8: Governance of Australian seas and oceans -- Ian Cresswell and Marcus Haward Section 2: Science and ocean use 9: Fisheries and aquaculture -- David C Smith and Nigel Preston 10: Energy from Australia's marine estate -- David C Smith, Kenneth Lee and Andrew Ross 11: Coastal development -- Andrew D.L. Steven, Simon Apte, L. Richard Little, Mat Vanderklift 12: Operational oceanography - security, safety, transport, search and rescue -- Peter R Oke and Andreas Schiller 13: Ocean pollution - risks, costs and consequences -- Britta Denise Hardesty, Paula Sobral, Simon Barry and Chris Wilcox 14: Tools and technologies for ocean observation -- Mark Underwood and Andreas Marouchos 15: Managing multiple uses of our oceans -- Beth Fulton, Tony Smith, Keith Sainsbury, Marcus Haward Section 3: Future oceans science 16: Changes and challenges for future generations -- Éva Plagányi, Peter R Oke, Tatiana Rykova, James Innes 17: Ocean changes to come -- Richard Matear, Alistair Hobday and Matt Chamberlain 18: Future technologies -- Bernadette Sloyan, Pascal Craw, Edward King, Craig Neill, Rudy Kloser, Levente Bodrossy 19: Conclusion -- Bruce Mapstone References Index.