Editorial Ocean science and policy, Nature Sustainability, volume 1, page 261, 2018. Societal commitment to protect our seas has never been higher, but it will not succeed unless coordination across the various regulatory bodies involved is achieved.
A new article on the BBNJ treaty as well as the challenge of marine litter in the form of plastic pollutions entitled “Ocean plastics and the BBNJ treaty – is plastic frightening enough to insert itself into the BBNJ treaty, or do we need to wait for a treaty of its own?” has been published OPEN ACCESS in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-018-0495-4 ABSTRACT Marine litter, and plastics in particular, is fast […]
A new article on adaptive capacity of small-scale fisheries appears in the latest issue of the journal Geoforum: FREDUAH, G.; FIDELMAN, P.; SMITH, T. 2018. Mobilising Adaptive Capacity to Multiple Stressors: Insights from Small-Scale Coastal Fisheries in the Western Region of Ghana. Geoforum, 91: 61-72; doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.026 The processes by which adaptive capacity is mobilised in response to multiple stressors are yet to be fully understood. This study addresses this pressing research gap by drawing […]
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 […]
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 […]
The “Global Ocean Science Report – The Current Status of Ocean Science around the World” has just been published by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO). The Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) assesses for the first time the status and trends in ocean science capacity around the world. The Report offers a global record of who, how, and where ocean science is conducted, generating knowledge, helping to protect ocean health, and empowering society to […]
D.G. Webster. 2015. Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries. Cambride, MA: The MIT Press. The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries management are not technical but political and economic. In this book, D. G. Webster describes how the political economy of fisheries has evolved and highlights patterns that are linked to sustainable transitions in specific fisheries. Grounded in the concept of responsive governance, Webster’s interdisciplinary analysis goes beyond the conventional view […]
Narula, Kapil. 2016. Ocean governance: strengthening the legal framework for conservation of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction. Maritime Affairs: Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India, . Published online: 11 May Marine ecosystems are a rich source of biodiversity, and healthy oceans are integral to the well-being of the ecosystem. Marine biological diversity, which is unique, is, however, unprotected and is threatened by various stressors on the oceans. The paper […]
Zondervan, Ruben, Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger, Isabel Torres de Noronha, Mark Joseph Spalding and Oran R. Young. 2013. Ocean Governance in the Anthropocene. IGBP Global Change Magazine, 81: 24-27. October 2013 We humans once thought the Earth was flat. Little did we know that the oceans extended far beyond the horizon, covering about 70% of the planet’s surface, containing more than 95% of its water. Once early explorers learned that planet earth is a sphere, the […]
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 […]
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