Governance in the Indian Ocean Region: Sustainability of sediment classification applications
Romit Rajendra Kaware
Research fellow at MRC
Key Highlights
- Indian Ocean region requires long-term regional treaties and agreements for socio-economic development.
- The regulations and policies of the coastal nations create a complex system of marine governance.
- Investment in capacity building and inter-disciplinary expertise is the need of the hour.
The Indian Ocean has helped people, products, ideas, and countries trade by connecting numerous regions. It connected the East and West, making it a crucial trade route. Cultures have developed, traded, and flourished through the waters of the Indian Ocean and it is still a busy waterbody. It facilitates global commerce. The Indian Ocean is significant geopolitically because it is a major trading route, contains oil resources, is strategically located, and has security challenges. These factors have made the Indian Ocean a focus for significant powers, impacting their policies, interests, and conflict.
Thus, we must better understand the seabed to meet social, economic, and scientific requirements. Technology has made marine information, statistics, and tracking simpler. However, they are just words on paper unless ideas are accepted, implemented, and made commercially viable. With expanded reach and usage, locating key stakeholders and incorporating them in a holistic development strategy is more crucial than ever. This would require identifying gaps in global, regional, and national governing frameworks and building capacity and skill development frameworks incorporating value addition fulfilling economic demands and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Thus, governments must assist in sediment classification in critical regions to make it successful, cost-effective, and large-scale.
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Romit Rajendra Kaware
Research fellow at MRC
Romit Rajendra Kaware is a fresh graduate of B.Tech in Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi and is currently working as a research fellow at MRC. His keen interest lies in scientific research in structures and materials since it help enhance his understanding of the processes used to construct robust infrastructure. Moreover, Romit is passionate about contributing his knowledge of civil engineering in the maritime domain, which can also benefit the nation and the environment