Ocean Policy Seminar

Each semester, the Graduate Ocean Policy Certificate Program offers an interdisciplinary, integrative seminar on ocean policy. It is usually team-taught with content focused on a new topic each semester. Two credits.

Topics of the seminar in recent years include:

  • Consequences of Global Climate Change
  • Ocean Policy Planning in the State of Hawai’i
  • Ocean Transportation/Commerce and Ocean Policy
  • The Environment and Sustainable Development in the Ocean
  • National Marine Policy
  • Integrated Ocean Management
  • Change and the Oceans: Physical, Economic, Political
  • Managing the Marine Environment: Legal and Policy Aspects
  • The Scientific Basis of Global Change
  • Ocean Politics: International, National, Domestic
  • Marine Transportation: Int’l Navigation, the Shipping Business, and Hawaiian Shipping
  • State Institutional Development in Ocean Policy
  • Climate Change and Atmospheric Policy
  • Interactive Climate and Society Models and Their Utilization in Policy Making
  • Marine Mammal Law and Policy

 

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