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| 1,169 1,169 playsPlastic 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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| 1,800 1,800 playsThe 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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| 1,194 1,194 playsThis 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… -
Our Ocean: A Finite Resource 4 of 16
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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource
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| 1,195 1,195 playsThe 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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| 336 336 playsIt is time to think about how SDG 5 on gender equality could be implemented! SDG 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. In this video… -
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| 200 200 playsIn 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… -
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| 189 189 playsThis 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… -
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| 196 196 playsAround 10% of the world’s population still lives in extreme poverty, with the majority of the people living in extreme poverty living in sub-Saharan Africa. SDG 1… -
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| 394 394 playsIs 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… -
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| 256 256 playsThis 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… -
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| 253 253 playsThe 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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| 192 192 playsPlankton 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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| 255 255 playsKonrad 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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Aquaculture and Mariculture
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| 153 153 playsMost 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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| 154 154 playsMarine food web structures differ greatly from those on land; plankton build up organic matter through photosynthesis that is consumed by secondary consumers, tiny… -
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| 241 241 playsThis chapter introduces various perspectives on the ocean's ecosystem services and how they should be accounted for in economic modeling. In September 2015, the…