Taskforce on Ocean Governance

Category: Space & Ecosystem Based Management (incl. MPAs)

Great Barrier Reef saw huge losses from 2016 heatwave

One-third of reefs in the world’s largest coral system were transformed by warmed waters, finds comprehensive underwater and aerial survey. Extreme heat in 2016 damaged Australia’s Great Barrier Reef much more substantially than initial surveys indicated, according to ongoing studies that have tracked the health of the coral treasure. The heatwave caused massive bleaching of the corals that captured worldwide attention. In a paper published on 18 April in Nature, researchers report1 that severe bleaching […]

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 […]

Capacity building workshop for EU early career marine researchers

The Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) project is inviting EU early career marine researchers (less than seven years post-PhD) to apply for a workshop on how to operate effectively at the science-policy-society interface. The workshop will take place June 17-20, 2018 in Lošinj, Croatia, and the deadline to apply is March 5, 2018. Workshop flyer: View here Online Application: Click here Workshop Description: Ecological goods and services provided by the oceans are critical to human well-being. However, […]

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 […]

Earth System Governance Task Force on Ocean Governance

The Taskforce on Oceans Governance seeks to address the daunting multi-level challenge of oceans governance in the Anthropocene. It brings together scholars from the global Earth System Governance network, with other researchers and practitioners to advance expertise and develop policy solutions in the marine area. In terms of scholarship, the Taskforce seeks to advance interdisciplinary understandings of the complex, multi-level relationships between social and ecological aspects of marine systems, as well as linkages to atmospheric […]