Taskforce on Ocean Governance

Category: Ocean Law

Call for abstracts for an ISA panel on Ocean Governance issues

*UPDATE – ALL FILLED UP* The call for proposals for the International Studies Association conference, in Toronto March 27th-30th 2019, are out, and we are putting together at least one panel proposal on Ocean Governance issues – or on ” multi-level challenge of oceans governance in the Anthropocene” as the Task Force on Ocean Governance so eloquently phrases it. We would like to propose two panel, however, but to do that we need three more papers for […]

Bright lights shining on the horizon for the Brazilian Ocean Economy?

The Brazilian government calls its ocean the “Blue Amazon”, an immense Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) that is over 4 million km2 and encompasses nearly a third of the total marine and terrestrial area under national jurisdiction. The country has just announced the designation of the two largest Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the South Atlantic around remote oceanic archipelagos that are unique in their geological origin, with large endemism and a rich marine and insular […]

Professorship Opening in Marine Governance at Oldenburg University, Germany

The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Oldenburg jointly founded the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB). For the establishment of HIFMB, we invite applications for a joint W3-professor position in Marine Governance. HIFMB develops the scientific basis for marine conservation and marine ecosystem management by analysing the functional role of biodiversity in marine ecosystem and understanding the general principles […]

Small-Scale Fisheries under Climate Change in the Pacific Islands Region

Marine Policy Vol 88 (February 2018; https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/marine-policy/vol/88/suppl/C) features a special section on Small-Scale Fisheries under Climate Change in the Pacific Islands Region. The introductory article’s abstract reads: For Pacific Island communities, social change has always been a part of their socio-political lives, while environmental changes were always transient and reversible, so that they understood and engaged with their ocean as a provider for food, culture and life. However, recent unprecedented and irreversible changes brought on […]

Call for paper abstracts on Earth System Governance for Blue Growth (2018 Utrecht ESG conference)

Much is expected of ‘Blue Growth’ as it simultaneously allows for economic development whilst also protecting our marine environment. Many questions remain about the Blue Economy in practice, however, especially in relation to how social, environmental and economic objectives can be successfully integrated, and how trade-offs between these objectives are made within and across individual Blue Economy sectors. This panel seeks to foster discussion within the ESG community on the Earth System Governance for Blue […]

Call for Papers for Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Regional Seas Environmental Cooperation Panel at ECPR 2018

The ESG Oceans Taskforce is issuing a call for papers for a panel on Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Regional Seas Environmental Cooperation co-chaired by taskforce member Judith van Leeuwen together with Dorothea Wehrmann from the German Development Institute. The panel will take place at the ECPR General Conference of 2018 being held in Hamburg on August 22-25, 2018. This panel is part of section 60 on Regional Seas in Comparative Perspective: Security and Sustainability. For more […]

Call for authors for an edited volume on a Sympathetic Critique of the Law of the Sea

Peter Jacques (U. Central Florida) and Rachel Tiller (SINTEF Ocean in Norway) are working on an edited volume on the Law of the Sea – a sympathetic critique thereof with respect to its ability to change over time with changing circumstances, climate and unforeseen events. They are in need of several more authors as soon as possible interested in the following topics: Two to three authors with an International Law background (lawyers were the specific […]

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