Quantitative analysis for maritime delimitation: Reassessing the Bay of Bengal delimitation between Bangladesh and Myanmar

Future importance of healthy oceans: Ecosystem functions and biodiversity, marine pollution, carbon sequestration, ecosystem goods and services

“…In addition, it is imperative to keep in mind that there are more resources in the oceans than we currently are aware of and without keeping the oceans healthy we shall miss exploring them (Cater and Cater, 2007;Gupta, 2017;Leary et al, 2009;Rajagopalan and Nihous, 2013). As the EEZ of Bangladesh is about the size of the country (KAŁDUŃSKI, 2015;Qiu and Gullett, 2017), the long term GDP growth of the country and equitable development depend on the productivity of Bay of Bengal which in terms depends on maintaining the bay in a healthy condition (Hussain et al, 2018;Rahman, 2017;Sarker et al, 2018). Maintaining the health of Bay of Bengal largely depends on understanding the threats to the ecosystem and biodiversity of the bay including climate change, overexploitation of resources, pollution and flow of pollutant containing sediments from municipal, industrial and agricultural sources.…”

“…The challenges associated with keeping the oceans healthy are both global and local since the oceans are all connected and any problem caused locally has global implications. Gulfs, Bays and Seas have economic zone marked for adjoining countries and are sources of disputes as exemplified by the recent resolution of dispute between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar (Alam, 2018;Qiu and Gullett, 2017) which has culminated in a verdict in favor of Bangladesh. The major challenges in maintaining healthy oceans include checking the flow of pollutants and contaminants through river discharges, atmospheric transportation and This is one example of internationalization of local dispute over seas.…”