Global U8 Consortium
Marine Affairs Case Studies
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| Case Title | Author | Timing | Type of Case Study | Case Notes |
Transportation Related |
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| Aleutian Risk | Tom Leschine | Summer (must await completion of NRC study) | TBD-Classical to start | |
| Port of Xiamen | Benrong Peng & Richard Burroughs | Summer | TBD-Classical to start | |
| Port of Mayaguez | Doug Hales & Nik Dholakia | August | TBD-Classical to start | |
Decision Making or Business Related |
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| Fisheries | Doug Hales | Baited Case | A look into fishing dilemmas affected by outside sources; marketing in particular. Observe the dilemma of certain species; Yellowfin tuna…overfished areas and impact on human elements along with causal factors by human elements. Directed toward an undergraduate audience depending on depth of research. | |
| Alien/Invasive species - global movement and economic aspects and legal controls. | Mike Elliot | End Year/end summer vacation | Classical | Examples of alien/invasive/intoduced species. Economic consequences. Any available national, regional, international laws to control them. |
| Issues in Financial Reporting on Environmental Liabilities: Coping With Risks of Actions and Information Release. | Tony Beckman | 9/30/2008 | Category 3: Management of Environmental Impacts and use of Environmental Resources | Companies must trade off disclosures with risks of allowing others to know of status. |
| Business of Climate Science: Educational Opportunites | Bradley Moran et al | 3-G_____s | (#2) Responding to Global Change (#3) Management of Environment | Case study of merging of business/economic, environmental science and social implications. Structured example: Blue MBA |
| Impact of reclamation planning in bays/harbors on the resource, ecosystem and marine environment. | Suoping Zhang | 10-12 months | EMBRYO CASE | (1) Reclamations are very common in China to get land against land shortage and global change; (2) It causes huge problems on resources, ecosystem and marine environment; (3) Reclamation planning belong to the decision-making process; (4) Using EMBRYO CASE to ask learners search info, identify current environmental issues and the impact on the environment it caused, especially cummulative impact. |
| The Chesapeake Bay Program: Non-point pollution structure, objectives outcomes | Tim Hennessey | Fall 2008 | ||
| Non-Point Pollution Management Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay comparisons and framework for multi-site comparison | Tom L & Tim H | Summer | ||
Marine Affair Related |
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| Florida Developments | Rob Thompson | Contract | ||
| The Working vs the relaxing Waterfronts. | Rob Thompson/Tiffany Smythe & Austin Becker | August | Classical | Condos vs Shipping |
| Predisaster Mitigation Planning: The Capacity & Commitment Conundrum | Rob Thompson | August | Classical | Based on Cape Cod. Might develop Korean counterpart. |
| UK Marine Bill/Euro. Marine Strategy/US Marine Governance | Mike Elliott/Larry Juda | End Year (at a push end summer vacation) | Classical | History of statute (Why & Where the statute came from) How it can be implemented and why it will work/not work in other geographical areas. |
| Gu8 Research Center on Renewable Energy | Cristian Nichita (University of LeHarvé) | Sep-08 | EMBRYO CASE | Develop a proposal structure for Research Center on Riverwaste energy and tidal/current/wave energy conversion for grid-supplemented in conjunction with micro-germination systems. |
| A Contingent Plan for Environmental Disasters in the South China Sea Region | Kuen-chen Fu | 4 months | < unfinished story | Describe the environmental crisis in the SCS region, particularly the political complexity would make the crisis unattended. (e.g. when a serious oil spill occurs). Analize the potential crisis in that semi-enclosed sea. Collecting laws and regulations of the 8 coastal entities and try to draft a contingent plan for the environmental crisis potential |
| A governance framework for Tourism Management: The Case of Newport, Rhode Island | ML Miller & TM Hennessey | 1-Sep | Critical Incident | Categories: Comparative Environmental Governance |
| Commercial Fishermen as Endangered Species: Sustainability Obligations of Fishery Management: US Examples | Seth Macinko & ML Miller | 1-Sep | Unfinished Story | Cross Section conflict |
| Tidal Flat Management in Korea: Policy, Asthetics & Environmental Education | ML Miller & Jae-Sang Hins | 1-Sep | classic | category: comparative environmental governance |
| BOHAI | Peng & Burroughs | 1-Jul-08 | Classic |
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