Maritime Resource-Geopolitics (incorporating national and regional facets of the ‘Blue Economy’ and ‘Climate Change’)

• National and Regional Facets of Ocean Governance.
• Living Resources of the Ocean:
  • Fish, Fishing, Fisheries, and national and regional Food Security.
  • Bioactive Natural Products.
  • Marine Bio-organisms.
  • Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV).
• Non-living Resources of the Ocean:
  • Minerals and Sea-bed Mining.
  • Conventional Energy.
  • Crude Oil and its Products.
  • Natural Gas.
  • Gas Hydrates.
  • Offshore Wind.
  • Ocean Energy (Ocean-Mechanical and Ocean-Thermal).
  • Security of Energy.
  • Geopolitical-Stability of Sources of Energy.
  • Security of Transport.
  • Security of Energy-relevant International Shipping Lanes (ISLs).
  • Security of Energy-relevant Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCs).
  • Maritime Security issues related to Energy Storage.
• Practical manifestations-of and challenges-in India’s endeavour to transition from a ‘Brown’ economy to a ‘Blue’ economy.
• The ‘Blue Economy’ as a foreign-policy tool for India.
• Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Industry resulting from the ‘Blueing’ of the Indian Economy.
• Effectiveness of ‘Blueing’ the Indian Economy as a Mitigating Strategy against Climate Change.
• Quantifying Climate-Change Impacts on India’s Naval Security.
• Leveraging the International ‘Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure’ (CDRI).
• Resilience of India’s Urban Agglomerates to Climate Change Impacts.
• Regional ‘Adaptative’ and ‘Mitigative’ Best Practices vis-à-vis Climate Change.
• Marine Pollution and trans-boundary movement of oceanic waste.
• Ocean Acidification.
• Degradation of the Underwater Acoustic Habitat.