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SMS 327 - Marine Pollution Policy

This course covers current legislative, regulatory, market and community-based approaches to addressing problems of coastal and marine pollution, engaging with both discussions of strategies for pollution prevention and pollution cleanup.  The course will also include what roles scientific data play in defining and solving marine pollution problems and what strategies can be successful to motivate behavior changes to help solve such problems.  The course will work through a series of case studies focused on different pollution problems, comparing the policy-design and overall effectiveness of each and focusing on reasons why policies fail to achieve their desired outcomes.  The course concludes with a broader discussion of what approaches to governance promote social and ecological resilience in the face of global change.  Over the course of the semester, we will discuss:  runoff nutrient pollution, plastics and ocean trash, toxic contaminants; harmful algal blooms, ocean acidification and hypoxia, dumping of waste at sea, fishing industry pollution, marine debris, climate change as a pollution problem. This course has two optional, weekend field trips.

Prerequisites: SMS 230

Course Typically Offered: Fall

Credits: 3