Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
Bring out the various ecological problems associated with the exploitation and use of oceans and their resources.
Oceans provide biotic resources (fish, marine mammals, algae, corals), abiotic resources (minerals, hydrocarbons, dissolved salts) and energy resources (tidal, wave, thermal), but their exploitation for a growing human population has outpaced regeneration, creating what is essentially a marine version of Garrett Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" (1968) — a common-pool resource over-used precisely because no…
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- Ecological Problems by Resource-Use Category
- Overfishing and Biological Resource Depletion
- Mineral, Energy and Seabed Exploitation
- Marine Pollution
- Climate-Linked Ecological Stress
- Governance and Cross-Cutting Complications
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