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9 results for "common-pool resources"

ZC_3_23 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_23 — Commons Governance — Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington, became the first woman to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) for her groundbreaking work demonstratin

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ZF_5_10 Verified Oceanography

ZF_5_10 — Marine Biotechnology: Blue Pharmacy and Ocean Genetic Resources

The ocean harbors an estimated 2.2 million species (most undescribed) across environments spanning freezing polar waters to superheated hydrothermal vents, anoxic sediments to UV-drenched coral reefs — a staggering diver

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S_3_04 Verified Future Technology

S_3_04 — Space Mining, Asteroid Resources, and Off-World Economics

The asteroid belt and near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population contain mineral resources of staggering physical magnitude — a single metallic asteroid like 16 Psyche contains an estimated 10¹⁹ kg of iron, nickel, and platinu

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ZF_4_03 Verified Oceanography

ZF_4_03 — Desalination and Ocean Water Resources

Desalination — the removal of dissolved salts from seawater or brackish water to produce freshwater — has become an increasingly critical technology as global freshwater demand rises and climate change intensifies drough

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ZE_4_09 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_4_09 — Indigenous Rights and Intellectual Property Ethics

Indigenous rights and intellectual property ethics examines the tension between Western IP frameworks (patents, copyrights, trade secrets — designed for individual, time-limited ownership) and indigenous knowledge system

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S_4_16 Credible Future Technology

S_4_16 — Asteroid Mining & Space Resource Extraction

Asteroid mining — the extraction of mineral resources, water, and volatiles from near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and main-belt asteroids — represents a theoretically transformative but technically undemonstrated space indust

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F_1_16 Credible Lost Connections

F_1_16 — Coastal Migration Hypothesis: Kelp Highway and Pacific Rim

The coastal migration hypothesis (also known as the "Kelp Highway" hypothesis) proposes that the initial human colonization of the Americas occurred not via the traditional ice-free corridor through the interior of North

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ZF_4_07 Verified Oceanography

ZF_4_07 — Deep Ocean Mining and Mineral Resources

Deep-sea mining — the extraction of mineral resources from the ocean floor at depths of 200–6,000 m — is one of the most consequential and contested environmental issues in contemporary oceanography. Three primary resour

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ZF_5_05 Verified Oceanography

ZF_5_05 — UNCLOS and Ocean Governance: Maritime Law, EEZ, and High Seas

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), adopted in 1982 and entering into force in 1994, is the comprehensive legal framework governing all uses of the world's oceans — often called the "Constitutio

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