Taskforce on Ocean Governance

Category: Sustainable Development Goals

Survey on influences of global environmental assessments on sustainable ocean development

(Post on behalf of Kyle Fawkes an MSc student at UCC) As part of the research I am conducting with University College Cork, Ireland and Future Earth Coasts, I have developed a short survey to investigate the influences that global environmental assessments and in particular the First World Ocean Assessment have had on sustainable ocean development. If you consider yourself an advocate for the oceans and their sustainability, or if you interact with the oceans on a regular basis, you should take this […]

Article on the BBNJ treaty and Marine Litter

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 […]

Budget earmarks $500m to mitigate Great Barrier Reef climate change

From  The Guardian The Turnbull government will allocate $500m to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef. The funding, to be unveiled on Sunday and confirmed in the May budget, follows a recent study finding that 30% of the reef’s corals died in a catastrophic nine-month marine heatwave in 2016. The government will partner with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in a $444m agreement to tackle crown-of-thorns starfish, reduce pollution and […]

Adapting Fisheries and Their Management to Climate Change

A new article “Adapting Fisheries and Their Management To Climate Change: A Review of Concepts, Tools, Frameworks, and Current Progress Toward Implementation” has been published in Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 2018, Vol.26(3), p.400-415, doi: 10.1080/23308249.2018.1445980 ABSTRACT As the body of literature on marine climate impacts accumulates the question is no longer whether marine ecosystems and their living resources are affected, but what we as scientists, managers and policy makers can do to prepare […]

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 […]

Adaptive Capacity of Small-scale Fisheries: New Publication

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 […]

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 […]

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