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How does the ocean functions, how can human interactions with the ocean can be understood, and what solutions are available to support both sustainable use and stewardship of our blue planet?

These videos are from the SDG Academy course O ne Planet, One Ocean, first launched in 2016 and led by Martin Visbeck, Physical Oceanographer at Kiel University's GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, and Avan Antia, Marine Biogeochemist at Kiel University.

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Ocean Plastic: Where Is It?

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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…
Ocean Plastic: What to do about it

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Ocean Plastic: What to do about it

Ocean Plastic: What to do about it

From SDG Academy

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This video addresses the question of how to deal with the plastic problem in the ocean in a sustainable way. Scientists all over the world are busy researching what…
Non-renewable Ocean Resources: From Exploration…

duration 10 minutes 37 seconds

Non-renewable Ocean Resources: From Exploration…

Non-renewable Ocean Resources: From Exploration to Exploitation

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In the long run, resources will become scarcer and scarcer, but there is a possibility that resources will be recovered from the ocean. There is an abundance of seabed…
Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable…

duration 9 minutes 26 seconds

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…
Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

duration 8 minutes 44 seconds

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…
Values and Attitudes to the Ocean

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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. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA…
One Planet, One Ocean - Trailer

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One Planet, One Ocean - Trailer

One Planet, One Ocean - Trailer

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Is the ocean the real final frontier? Humans have a greater understanding of the surface of the moon than they do of the depths of these waters. But what we know of the…
From Ocean Science to Ocean Sustainable…

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From Ocean Science to Ocean Sustainable…

From Ocean Science to Ocean Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy

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This chapter presents some amazing facts about the ocean, including that seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by ocean and that the oceans provide 95…
Governing Global Commons

duration 11 minutes 16 seconds

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…
Dance of the Plankton

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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…
Marine Food Chains

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Marine Food Chains

Marine Food Chains

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Marine food web structures differ greatly from those on land; plankton build up organic matter through photosynthesis that is consumed by secondary consumers, tiny…
Aquaculture and Mariculture

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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…
The Ocean and Concepts of Sustainability

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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…
Coastal Hazards

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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…
Fisheries Economics and Management

duration 8 minutes 19 seconds

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…
Human Influence on the Ocean

duration 11 minutes 26 seconds

Human Influence on the Ocean

Human Influence on the Ocean

From SDG Academy

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This era of human impact on the environment and the ocean is called the Anthropocene, and the main problem is that we produce energy by burning fossil fuels and emit…

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