The site includes the following elements:
- A design that is build around three frames: a TOC, a Banner and a Home Tutorial , Search and Display Frame
- A PC machine running Windows 98/2000 +. IE 5.5, PowerPoint 2000 and a High BandWidth Internet connection can access the site's extensive use of dynamic features
The features include: animated graphics, sound and video; FrontPage Server Extension for Conferencing and Messaging; browser display of native PowerPoint files and presentations that have been converted and published as html Webpages. In addition, External Links, PDF files, and CGI scripted DataBases
that are editable and searchable are included. An annotated bibliography of resources used to research this UNCLOS presentation is a working example of || Quik_DB ||
A the end of the presentation, the audience can expect the following:
- working familiarity with the concept of the Commons as used by the UNCLOS
- An understanding of some differences between the stategic goals of Umbrella Conventions and Framework Conventions.
- An appreciation of the complex nature of International policy implementation given the diver nature of the Coordinating IGOs, NGOs
,INGOs, International Trade Organizations and Nation States .
- A historical perspective of Ocean exploration, trade and exploitation
- An awareness some of the important Ecologic Services provided by the Earth's Oceans.
- The ability to identify some contributions to Ocean understanding by Rachael Carson, Roger Revel, and Elizabeth Mann Borgese.
- A Global Perspective of the Arctic Ocean as a Commons and as a unique Eco-System
- A sense of the mission, capabilities and powers of policing of the USCG
- A perspective of how pollution ,contamination and pertubation of deep ocean and coastal waters by oil is prevented, mitigated,
measured, managed, monitored and adjudicated.
- A sense of the reserve, repair and recovery capacity of a massive, mature, stable and resilient complex system such as the Oceans.
- An awareness of the t rudimentary state of man-made models that are based on data gathered from Ocean sources.
- The ability to do a computer based self assessment quiz on the topics presented.
- An
awareness of the notion of the ombudsman system as a mechanism that can be applied to practically solving problems within a community that values the hard-won work of understanding complex natural systems. This presentation does not take for granted hard-won right of the free and open exchange of information and ideas.