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Conversation with Christina Gerhardt and Simona Marinescu, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs, Christina Gerhardt and UN Senior Advisor on Small Island Developing States, Simona Marinescu as they discuss human induced global warming, the implications of rising…

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Dance of the Plankton

Learning about marine food webs is essential to understand how the ocean provides us with seafood. Enjoy the whiteboard animation before watching Chapter 4.2 "Dance of the Plankton." This…

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

In this chapter we learn about the enormous contribution of fish and seafood to human nutrition, what the ocean provides us, and how its resources are finite. This video is licensed under the CC…

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Case study: Source-to-Sea Approach: the Danube–Black Sea Cooperation

This case study looks at the work of the ICPDR to lessen the negative environmental impacts of the Danube River flowing into the Black Sea by using a source-to-sea approach. This video is licensed…

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The Ocean as a Common Heritage of Humankind

In this video, you will find out how governance of the territorial (and coastal) waters of sovereign states differs from governance of the high seas. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA…

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Water Resource Governance: From Source to Sea: Accelerating Progress

This chapter examines the governance of water resources from source to sea and how we need to transform governance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on the challenge of…

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Water-related Ecosystems

This chapter discusses water-related ecosystems in the contexts of the SDGs and the water quality challenge in the SDG6 perspective and the dynamics from source to sea. This video is licensed under…

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The Age of Discovery

This chapter looks at the beginnings of global capitalism during the period 1500 to roughly 1800, focusing on the first discoveries of sea routes from Europe to the Americas and from Europe to Asia,…

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Climate Change as a Planetary Boundary

This lecture provides evidence for why climate change is a planetary boundary, based on temperature changes since the Industrial Revolution. We have already seen 1 degree Celsius of warming over the…

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Evolving Technology

Technology has changed the operations of the extractive industry in numerous ways such as: automation, the use of big data, remote sensing, and new means of processing various minerals. It is aiding…

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Sea-Based Globalization

This chapter focuses on the fourth wave of globalization, or the era of ocean-based globalization, and the period between Christopher Columbia and James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. This…

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Debates Over the 2-Degree Limit

There are two sides to the arguments over whether the 2 degree Celsius limit is the right one to have for the planet. Leading climate scientists, particularly Professor Jim Hansens, argues that there…

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The Consequences of the BAU Trajectory

In this chapter, Emmanuel Guérin discusses the consequences of temperature increases that result from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming of 4 degrees Celsius or more would have…

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Introduction to the Ocean & Climate

The ocean drives the climate of the Earth; only in the last 800,000 years has the temperature and carbon dioxide levels of the atmosphere stayed within narrow boundaries, which are the result of the…

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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts

Explains the impact on people that different levels of sea level rise would have. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Seal Level Rise Projections

Looks more in-depth at what the realistic predictions of sea-level rise are for the different RCPs. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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