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What is the meaning of double landlocked?
A country who is surounded by countries, none of which border an ocean
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What are the two double land locked countries in the world?
Uberbajain and Lichtenstein
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Who is involved with Law of the Sea?
Everyone, even the smaller countries
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What was found in penguins?
DDT
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Why was it surprising to find penguins with DDT?
Because Antarctica is the area with the lowest impact by humans
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What direction is the circulation of water on the earth
roughly left to right
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How long does it take water to curclate entirely around the earth?
~1000 years
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What is the most important part about the circulation of water around the earth to us?
It shapes our weather
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What might happen to the conveyor belt of water in the future?
It could slow down or maybe even stop
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What are some consequences of the water conveyor belt slowing down/stopping
- growing regions shift
- some countries doen't have capacity to adjust (like not enough money)
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bistable system
consistantly add same amount of energy, but one time all of the sudden change
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What is the oceans role with CO2?
sink
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What is the proble with calling the ocean a CO2 sink?
- We don't have long term measurments
- only a monestary for 600 years
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What area of the sea floor particurally complicates laws?
the continental shelf
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Why does the continetal shelf further complicate law?
- drop off
- is it still a part of that country
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What is the law about resources on the bottom of the ocean?
belong to everyone
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What problems are created by the N. Pacific Gyre?
- things go in circles
- catch junk in water
- lots of sea animals migrate through area
- sea animals eat the junk
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Exxon Valdez
- oil coat
- try to keep the proper name of ships out of newspapers
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What might happen with oceans and weather in the future?
- Events such as el nino
- much more dramatic
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Problems with Beach Erosions
- losing coastlines
- lots of cities on coast - can't all rebuild
- sea shell islands raising alarm - more vulnerable than they used to be
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What color is water when there is a lot of water?
green
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Where are fisheries?
in areas under national control
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what are drift nets?
up to 40 miles long, throw in water and pull up everything
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bicatch
- fish you can't carry
- killed and thrown back
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What are some problems faced with fishing?
overfishing except for 2 countries
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How did the British view the ocean?
- free trade
- freedom of the seas
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When was the first sea lord and what did he say?
- 1706
- 5 keys to the world and we have them all
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What were the 5 keys to the world?
- Suez
- Good Hope
- Gibralter
- Milaka
- Charmpain
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Why did the US build the Panama Canal?
- we control
- lots of shipinping
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How did Shakespere view the ocean?
- Wall
- keeps people out
- protective
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What did people beleive about the sea in 1890?
That you cannot be invaded by the sea
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What were the 3 technical revolutions between 1400 and 1700?
- artillary
- printing
- ocean navigation
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Of artillary, printing and, ocean navigation which leads to power imbalance between different parts of golbe?
ocean navigation
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What makes some countries more wealthy than others?
- burocracy - best people in best jobs
- external sources of information - everyone have access - more minds
- western technology
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What did the west invent?
Double ended book keeping
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Why did only liberal countries have people sailing out?
Because bringing a fleet will bring new ideas
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What are the 3 tradiational perspectives for study of the ocean?
- Resource provider - fish
- transport areana - move things/people
- Battleground
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What are the requirments to move things via land?
- things you can carry
- valuable
- don't perish
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When was the first naval battle?
1500 BC - hapshetsut
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When and what was it called, the first battle out of the site of land?
Gettling 1916
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Before naval battles what was the point of a navy?
Getting your fleet there
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Can societies regulte the entire ocean space or only coastal areas?
90% of fish cought from 37% of ocean in coastal areas
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How much of the world's goods are carried by sea?
- 95% by weight
- 67% by value
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Three aspects of social "construction"
- use
- regulations
- represntations/depictions
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Capatalist view point
- capatalism creates places - independent of physical conformation
- arranges created spaces heiracrchically as sources/producers of value
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Constructivist viewpoint
- world systems - oceans are used for capatalists trade dominence and belong to the dominant powers
- articulated nodes of proudction - ocenas sperate subsistance workers from wealthiest capatlist societeis
- spaical dialetics - oceans permit inequality of investment and production necesary to capatalism
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Constructivist Regulations
- oceans are "emptiable" - subject ot no ones states rule
- oceans have secondary status relative to land terratories of states - we live on land
- idea of who controls what are entirely a construct of dominant powers
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Constructivitist Representation
- even with the advent of the scientific method, the oceans still seem as 'open'
- land is developable and governable
- oceans are undevelopable and anarchic
- oceans creates a sense of otherness
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