GG Chapter 8: Sovereignty of Ocean Resources

Desalination

converting saline water to fresh water

Conservation

protection

Warming Oceans

result in more tropical fish being caught, fish moving upwards and downwards further between the tropics, loss of temperate/cool water fish and some subtropical fish

Underused Resource Areas

Antarctica, Arctic

Arctic Superpowers

US, Canada, Greenland, Russia, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark

CASE STUDY: ARCTIC

Positive ice albedo feedback due to melting sea ice

Russia claims since 1926, now controls 53%

Increasingly competitive since 2014 Crimea annexation for oil and gas

Inuit people issues

Thawing will increase release of methane

Increased coastal erosion

More storm surges

More flooding and creation of wetlands

More forest fires due to higher temperatures

More precipitation moving pollution to the arctic

Species shift north due to encroaching of coniferous on tundra

Marine species extinction

Migration pattern shift

CASE STUDY: FALKLAND ISLAND

Dispute between Britain and Argentina

Claims of Argentinian inheritance from the 1800s, Britain invaded it first

Falkland war in 1982, lasting 74 days

Argentinian surrender, did not relinquish claims