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Welcome to the Anthropocene

Welcome to the Anthropocene

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There is rising scientific evidence that humanity has now entered a new era that is defined as the Anthropocene, in which humanity is shaping the entire biosphere in a…
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The Quadruple Squeeze

The Quadruple Squeeze

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The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population…
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Social-Ecological Systems

Social-Ecological Systems

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Professor Carl Folke discusses a social-ecological system approach, in which people are looked at as being part of, and changing, the planet, in addition to being…
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Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable…

Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable Development

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The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This…
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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

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The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it…
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Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

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This chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban…
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Ocean Plastic: Where Is It?

Ocean Plastic: Where Is It?

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Plastic in the ocean is polluting the ocean, but in order to address this problem, we need to know where the plastic is within the ocean. In this chapter, Dr. Erik Van…
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One Planet, One Ocean - Trailer

One Planet, One Ocean - Trailer

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Click here to enroll in One Planet, One Ocean: https://www.edx.org/course/one-planet-one-ocean This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Learn more at…
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Values and Attitudes to the Ocean

Values and Attitudes to the Ocean

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This chapter explores the human-ocean connection, and how managing the ocean requires managing human systems as well.
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Governing Global Commons

Governing Global Commons

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The regulation and enforcement of the oceans is very difficult. The Law of the Sea Convention and other landmark legal instruments have brought important progress over…
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Coastal Hazards

Coastal Hazards

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Coastal systems are exposed to natural hazards such as tropical storms, as well as slower process such as coastal erosion. Sea level rise exacerbates the effects of…
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Dance of the Plankton

Dance of the Plankton

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Plankton are tiny creatures that drift in the sunlit surface layer of the sea, and their choreography is conducted by sunlight and nutrients. Light only penetrates the…
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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

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A planetary boundary process is an environmental process that is part of the Earth's regulatory system, helping it to remain in our current desired state of the…
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Aquaculture and Mariculture

Aquaculture and Mariculture

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Most of marine aquaculture is not sustainable and is actually taking away protein from the human population. Around 1990, the wild capture fisheries leveled off at 95…
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The Ocean and Concepts of Sustainability

The Ocean and Concepts of Sustainability

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Konrad Ott makes details four aspects of sustainability that are essential to any deeper understandings of it: history, ethics, concepts, politics. More than 300 years…
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Fisheries Economics and Management

Fisheries Economics and Management

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In the period from 1950 to the late 1980s, global catches in fishers have increased from less than 20 million tons per year to about 80 million tons per year. They have…

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