Course description

MRCM includes conventional marine activities, such as fisheries and shipping, but also nature reserves and tourism, mining, and the development of aquaculture and offshore renewable energy sources. The intensity of marine resources and coastal uses causes enhanced needs to understand and coordinate spatial and temporal relationships between ecological and economic dimensions of MRCM. This course introduces fundamental concepts in oceanography and marine ecology. Students will be trained in identifying and mapping potential resources and their development dynamics. The course explores various management models, and students learn to include carrying capacity analyses in business models. We also present and discuss case studies of governance and conflicts in the use of marine and coastal resources in ASEAN.

Learning objectives

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Identify and map potential ocean and coastal resources,

• Understand physical and social-political factors in resource use dynamics (e.g. tides and waves, erosion and tsunami; profit interests and government regulations),

• Critically utilize available tools to assess economic resource values and ecological vulnerability

• Understand and utilize ecological balance and carrying capacity analyses, such as EIA (environmental impact assessment) and SEA (strategic environmental assessment)

Critically assess strengths and weaknesses of various policy and regulatory frameworks Books and reading material

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