Main theme: Historical Perspectives on the Elements and Dynamics of the Marine Socio-Ecological System. 

Venue: Sesimbra, Portugal, 16 to 18 May 2017.

An event by the Oceans Past Initiative

Working Group from the EU COST Action Oceans Past Platform that aims to develop a comparative, trans-disciplinary and integrative understanding of the human-ocean system.

This project will start on Portugal mainland and will follow to the Portuguese Atlantic aiming the identification and analysis of the historical and scientific route of the whales and whaling in the early modern Atlantic.

Authored by Cristina Brito, this book emphasizes the importance of Natural History, Environmental History, History of Science and Biology in the development of an Atlantic History of marine mammals.