The Benefits to Marine Spatial Planning and Its Impacts on Life on Land

 During my last term of my senior year, Frontiers, we were able to look into eight grand challenges our marine ecosystems were currently facing. We were asked to construct a literature review going over some solutions to these grand challenges. For me, I find our marine ecosystems make a huge impact on the way that we live our life on land being that our Earth is 71% covered by water. This effects our socio-economic development as we know it. In other words, if our oceans are being protected and aren't doing well, we aren't either. For this action project, I decided to focus my attention on the impacts of Marine Spatial Planning and combine my interests on land to life underwater. Check out one of my last action projects below to see how Marine Spatial Planning can impact our life on land and our future as we know it. 

Yuejong, Hu. Dec. 15, 2019. Pixabay. 

In conclusion, I enjoyed being able to work on a project where I was able to combine my interests in economics with life underwater. I thought it was an interesting take on international relations and economics in a way that many haven't quite seen before, and I hope this piece inspires some students, scientists, or leaders around the globe to look into this a bit more to see how we can advance as a society, and change the future for life underwater in the most efficient way possible. 

Citations:

1. Borja, Angel. 2013. Marine research in the Iberian Peninsula: A pledge for better times after an economic crisis. Journal of Sea Research. Volume 83.

2. Benedetti-Cecchi. 2005. Unanticipated impacts of spatial variance of biodiversity on plant productivity. Ecology Letters. Volume 8, Issue 8. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X12002084?via%3Dihub

3. Ehler, C. and Douvere, F. (2009) Marine spatial planning: a step-by-step approach. Paris, France, Unesco, 99pp. (IOC Manuals and Guides 53), ( ICAM Dossier 6). DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-43. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308597X0800064X

4. Underwood, Evelyn & Taylor, Katie & Tucker, Graham. (2018). The use of biodiversity data in spatial planning and impact assessment in Europe. Research Ideas and Outcomes. 4. e28045. 10.3897/rio.4.e28045. 

5. Underal, Arild. 2017. Climate Change and International Relations (After Kyoto). Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. Volume 20. 

6. Wanfei Qiu, Peter J.S. Jones. 2013. The emerging policy landscape for marine spatial planning in Europe. Marine Policy. Volume 39. 

12 Hours of Endurance: Rue Maghreb

For my second unit of the last term of my humanities course, Endurance, I dedicated twelve hours to a project I was passionate about completing. As many of you know, I have a clothing brand that I have been able to work on for about three years now. I decided to dedicate twelve hours of work towards my brand in order to answer the question: How does interaction allow for more people to believe in Rue Maghreb’s mission that impacts my personal mission? “ In other words, how can we attract more people to the page?  My personal mission is to invite nostalgia in my life to not forget where I came from or where I’m going. This was all under the state of Katabasis which means "epic convention of the hero's trip into the underworld." In other words, entering a state of critical part of a journey and rising up from it. I was able to develop a sort of "vlog" style video that allows you to enter a part of the process and see it for yourself. From communicating with some clients who didn't really get our message to communicating with some influencers who didn't get back to us to translating documents, etc. Here is my work below! 

 

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Special thanks to:
Loubaba Boury - Social Media Director (Rue Maghreb)Souhaib Jaafari- Communications Manager (Rue Maghreb)