Taskforce on Ocean Governance

Category: Conflict & Diplomacy

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]