30 FOR 30 TOK: IB MARINE SCIENCE: THE THINKING BEHIND THE SUBJECT - Softcover

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More is known about the surface of the Moon than the floor of the ocean. Humanity depends on the sea for climate, oxygen, and food, and has explored less than a fifth of it. Marine science is a discipline defined as much by the scale of its ignorance as by the reach of its knowledge.

30 For 30 TOK: IB Marine Science is the nineteenth book in the 30 For 30 TOK series, which pairs thirty IB diploma subjects with thirty searching questions about the nature of the knowledge it produces. This volume focuses on the IB Marine Science course, asking questions about observation, modelling, conservation, and the ethical obligations of scientists who are documenting the deterioration of the systems they study.

From the epistemology of deep-sea research to the contested concept of maximum sustainable yield, from the governance of the high seas to the ethics of deep-sea mining in ecosystems we have barely catalogued, the thirty questions in this book press on what marine science knows and what it urgently needs to know. Sample responses model what rigorous, ethically engaged thinking about ocean science and its consequences looks like in practice.

Designed for IB Marine Science students, teachers, TOK educators, and anyone who cares about the world's largest and least understood ecosystem.

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