MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

概要

Environmental policy is relatively new to the global stage of policy dialogue and initiatives. Much of the environmental policy efforts to date are land-based leaving 70% of the globe’s environment, the ocean/marine environment, often ignored or shut out from mainstream policy initiatives. The ocean is in a crisis, threatened by adverse human activities such as overfishing and degradation of marine habitats. Scientists estimate that 45% of the main marine fish stocks or species are overexploited, that large predatory fish have declined by 90% and coral reefs - ‘the rainforests of the sea’ and home to one-third of all known marine species, are in peril. From the local community-based management level to global policy of multilateral environmental agreements, there is a serious need for more people with a solid scientific foundation as a researcher of the oceans in policy. This course will explore the marine environmental policy first from a global perspective on what has driven marine environmental policy from the 20th Century and then take a more local view of efforts from countries around the world to develop marine environmental policies. We will thus be looking at United Nation related multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) but also look at case studies from different countries to try and get both a global outlook and understanding but also understand the challenges and potentials of marine environmental policy from the local level.

目標

The aim of this course is to help students further both their ability to analyze marine environmental problems and challenges and increase their understanding of marine environmental policy. Course reading will be handed out weekly to ensure in-depth reading to develop knowledge sets and critical reading capacities on this subject.

授業外の学習

To be announced in the first class. *NOTE: depending on number of student participants, lecture content and scheduling may be subject to change.

所要時間: 190 minutes of outside classwork