Tampa Bay

The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Evan P. Bennett

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University Press of Florida
30 April 2024

Series: Florida in Focus

Exploring the environmental history of an important natural area

The largest open water estuary in Florida, Tampa Bay has been a flashpoint of environmental struggles and action in recent years. This book goes beneath today’s news headlines to explore how people have interacted with nature in the region throughout its long history.

In Tampa Bay, Evan Bennett reveals that humans have been part of the Bay’s ecology since the estuary took its modern form 2,000 years ago, along with the communities of fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals that proliferated in its seagrass meadows, tidal salt flats, and mangrove forests. Bennett discusses the natural resources that drew people to settle there, the trade that encouraged development, and the shipping and industry that increased biological and ecological change.

While the past 150 years have seen serious environmental damage from dredging, water pollution, red tides, and more, Bennett shows how people have been fighting to clean up the Bay and regain a balance with nature. Informed by the latest in marine science, area environmentalists, policymakers, and citizens are working to create a model for other societies that have developed in fragile natural areas.

The first book to examine the environmental history of the region, Tampa Bay uncovers deep-rooted relationships between water, land, and people and offers hope for bringing threatened coastal spaces back from the brink.

A volume in the series Florida in Focus, edited by Andrew K. Frank

By: Evan P. Bennett
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780813079011
ISBN 10: 0813079012
Series: Florida in Focus
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evan P. Bennett is associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont.

Reviews for Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People

"""Offers real-world lessons for readers interested in coastal clean-up. . . . With all its muck and scum, a book worthy of gloom, yet this telling of the Tampa Bay's turnaround offers hope.""--Library Journal"