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== Career and impact == |
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Over the last 10 years, Baker has worked on different projects with [[GRID-Arendal]]. These include the internationally recognized [[United Nations Environment Programme]]'s (UNEP) ''Continental Shelf Programme'', (CSP) that resulted from [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]] (UNCLOS). The aim of the CSP is to assist [[developing countries]] and smaller [[island nation]]s in securing their rights to extended territorial limits under the [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea#UNCLOS III| third UNCLOS]] convention. In order to claim extended [[continental shelf]] limits, states need to collect and provide extensive technical [[geographical]] data. Under the programme, GRID (Global Resource Information Database) centers provide technical and expert support to these states in collecting the [[geospatial]], marine [[geophysical]] and [[Marine geology|geological]] data needed for submissions under UNCLOS. The GRID-Arendal center coordinates the CSP globally.<ref>{{Citation|last=GRID-Arendal|title=GRID-Arendal – A Centre Collaborating with UN Environment|date=2014-04-28|url=https://vimeo.com/93120367|access-date=2021-03-29}}</ref> Her work is widely recognized in [[Australasia]] and the [[Pacific Islands]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Shelf Programme: A Decade of Successfully Helping to Secure the Maritime Rights of Developing Coastal States {{!}} GRID-Arendal|url=https://www.grida.no/publications/168|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.grida.no}}</ref> |
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Baker has spoken out in relation to the need to create an independent international body to supervise the construction of dams in mines. |
She has developed research related to waste including a review of marine litter in the UN Global Environment's GEO6 report<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27539|title=Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People|first=United Nations Environment|last=Programme|date=April 2, 2019}}</ref> and contributed to the Overall Guidance Document on the Environmentally Sound Management of Household Waste.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.basel.int/Implementation/HouseholdWastePartnership/OverallGuidanceDocument/tabid/8227/Default.aspx|title=Overall Guidance Document|website=Basel.int|access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref> Baker has spoken out in relation to the need to create an independent international body to supervise the construction of dams in mines. She supports an independent body to monitor the benchmark, rather than the industry, as "there has been a history of catastrophic dam failures in countries where mine governance is quite good, including Australia".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-05|title=Experts call for independent body to oversee new standard to prevent dam collapses at mines|url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/06/experts-call-for-independent-body-to-oversee-new-standard-to-prevent-dam-collapses-at-mines|access-date=2021-03-29|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> |
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== Selected works == |
== Selected works == |
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Elaine K. Baker is a UNESCO Chair in Marine Science at the University of Sydney and is the Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute.[1] Her position is supported by GRID-Arendal, a centre collaborating with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Early life and education
Baker was interested in geology in her childhood and she had a rock collection and managed to turn that interest in the natural world into a career.[2] Baker holds a BSc (Hons) from La Trobe University[3] and a PhD from the University of Sydney,[4] where she has been employed for more than 30 years.[2]
Career and impact
Over the last 10 years, Baker has worked on different projects with GRID-Arendal. These include the internationally recognized United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Continental Shelf Programme, (CSP) that resulted from United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The aim of the CSP is to assist developing countries and smaller island nations in securing their rights to extended territorial limits under the third UNCLOS convention. In order to claim extended continental shelf limits, states need to collect and provide extensive technical geographical data. Under the programme, GRID (Global Resource Information Database) centers provide technical and expert support to these states in collecting the geospatial, marine geophysical and geological data needed for submissions under UNCLOS. The GRID-Arendal center coordinates the CSP globally.[5] Her work is widely recognized in Australasia and the Pacific Islands.[6]
She has developed research related to waste including a review of marine litter in the UN Global Environment's GEO6 report[7] and contributed to the Overall Guidance Document on the Environmentally Sound Management of Household Waste.[8] Baker has spoken out in relation to the need to create an independent international body to supervise the construction of dams in mines. She supports an independent body to monitor the benchmark, rather than the industry, as "there has been a history of catastrophic dam failures in countries where mine governance is quite good, including Australia".[9]
Selected works
- Mangalagiu, D., Baker, E., Fidelman, P., Gonçalves, L. R., Harris, P., Hollway, J., ... & Rice, J. (2019). Oceans and Coastal Policy-Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 14. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6[10]): Healthy Planet, Healthy People.
- Global Linkages - A graphic look at the changing Arctic
- Crump, J., Jacob, K., King, P., Mangalagiu, D., Abiodun, B. J., Armiento, G., ... & Wright, C. Y. (2019). Systemic Policy Approaches for Cross-cutting Issues.
- Gupta, J., Hurley, F., Grobicki, A., Keating, T., Stoett, P., Baker, E., ... & Ekins, P. (2019). Communicating the health of the planet and its links to human health. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(5), e204-e206.
- Johansen, K. S., Alfthan, B., Baker, E., Hesping, M., Schoolmeester, T., & Verbist, K. (2019). El Atlas de Glaciares y Aguas Andinos: el impacto del retroceso de los glaciares sobre los recursos hídricos. UNESCO Publishing.
References
- ^ "Marine Studies Institute". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ a b "Elaine Baker | GRID-Arendal". www.grida.no. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Baker, Elaine E. (1984), The geology of part of the tertiary sequence of the Port Campbell embayment, Otway Basin, Victoria, retrieved 31 March 2021
- ^ Baker, Elaine K. (1999), Sedimentology and the impact of mining in a tidally dominated delta : Fly River, Papua New Guinea, University of Sydney, retrieved 31 March 2021
- ^ GRID-Arendal (2014-04-28), GRID-Arendal – A Centre Collaborating with UN Environment, retrieved 2021-03-29
- ^ "The Shelf Programme: A Decade of Successfully Helping to Secure the Maritime Rights of Developing Coastal States | GRID-Arendal". www.grida.no. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Programme, United Nations Environment (April 2, 2019). "Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Overall Guidance Document". Basel.int. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "Experts call for independent body to oversee new standard to prevent dam collapses at mines". the Guardian. 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Programme, United Nations Environment (2019). "Oceans and Coastal Policy – Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 14".
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