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Better understand the Ocean

Discover our selection of resources shared during the workshops, including recommendations for books, films, documentaries, and podcasts about the Ocean.

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Contributions from the Ocean

  • The UN Sustainable Development Goals

Climate

Biodiversity

Maritimes Industries

  • France Energies Marines for marine renewable energy (MRE)

  • The Green Marine Europe website, the environmental certification program for European maritime industries

  • Innovative transport initiatives from Neoline, Grain de Sail, Zephyr et Borée, Towt, Airseas…

  • The tracking website to view ships live across the globe

Fishing

  • The French reference site is IFREMER. This site explains, in particular, the different types of fishing.

  • The FAO provides very precise global statistics on fishing and aquaculture worldwide.

  • FranceAgriMer consolidates French data.

  • Didier Gascuel's conference on "The Challenges of Sustainable Fishing" is also relevant.

  • Here are some examples of apps and guides for sustainable consumption: the WWF guide, the MR GoodFish app, the EthicOcean Ethiquetable website, etc.

  • The media Blutopia

BOOKS

Colored books

Biodiversity

  • “Reconciling people with wildlife” by François Sarano

  • “The Plankton Handbook” by Pierre Mollo & Anne Noury

  • “In the name of the sharks” by François Sarano

  • “  Mandela’s penguins” by David Gremillet (on seabirds)

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Pollution

  • “Homo detritus, Critique of the waste society” by Baptiste Monsaingeon

  • "Green algae, the forbidden story" by Inès Léraud (BD)

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Fishing

  • “Ocean Scrapers” by Anita Conti

  • “For a revolution in the sea, from overfishing to resilience” by Didier Gascuel

  • "An ocean of battles", the biography of Daniel Pauly by David Grémillet 

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Others

  • “Ocean of Life: how our seas are changing" by Callum Roberts

  • “Geopolitics of the poles, towards an appropriation of polar spaces? » by Anne Choquet, Camille Escudé-Joffre and Frédéric Lasserre  

  • “Paul Watson” by Lamya Essemlali (Sea Shepherd)

  • "The Jungle of the Oceans" by Ian Urbina

  • “Tomorrow the Ocean” by Hugo Verlomme

  • "Water" by Jean-Marie Vigoureux (popularization of many physical notions around water"

  • “The sea a natural therapy for our health” by Dr Deborah Cracknell

  • KAYZEN's Special Edition  “Seas and Oceans”

MOVIES / DOCUMENTARIES

TV screens

  • The classics “Oceans” by Jacques Perrin or “Our planet, Planet Ocean” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  • “Artifishal” (about aquaculture)

  • "Cargo the hidden face of freight" 

  • "The sand investigates a disappearance" 

  • "The wisdom of the octopus" 

  • "Wrecks and pollution, the black tears of the ocean" 

  • “Seaspiracy” 

  • “Sonic Sea” on noise pollution

  • “Dams, water under high tension” on Imago

  • “Right whales vs lobsters” on ARTE (on the impacts of trap fishing)

  • The documentary series "Mediterranean, the odyssey for life" on France TV

  • The “Toxic Tour” documentary series on pollution replayed on ARTE

  • “Krill: the secret of the pack ice”

  • Many programs such as the famous "cash investigation" or the podcasts of France Inter (in particular la Terre au carré) and France Culture and France Bleu. 

  • IMAGOTV a committed film platform!

MOOC

  • One Planet, One Ocean 

  • L’Océan au coeur de l’humanité

  • Durabilité des pêches et de l’aquaculture

  • L’économie bleue durable, la maritimisation et l’océan

  • Trame verte et bleue

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