“…Safeguarding marine life: conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems Ward et al ( 2020 ) 3. Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems Farmery et al ( 2020 ) 4. Connected to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement Kelly et al ( 2020 ) 5.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge team followed a distinct approach to developing their paper and futures, which are detailed in Fischer et al ( 2020 ). This team also co-authored, reviewed and/or provided critical input for the other Key Challenges (Bax et al 2020 ; Farmery et al 2020 ; Haas et al 2020 ; Kelly et al 2020 ; Melbourne-Thomas et al 2020 ; Nash et al 2020 ; Novaglio et al 2020 ; Smith et al 2020 ; Trebilco et al 2020 ; Ward et al 2020 ; Willis et al 2020 ), based on their chosen preferences and interests, and initiated and elected to draft a preface for the special issue as a whole (Mustonen et al unpublished).…”
“…Safeguarding marine life: conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems Ward et al ( 2020 ) 3. Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems Farmery et al ( 2020 ) 4. Connected to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement Kelly et al ( 2020 ) 5.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge team followed a distinct approach to developing their paper and futures, which are detailed in Fischer et al ( 2020 ). This team also co-authored, reviewed and/or provided critical input for the other Key Challenges (Bax et al 2020 ; Farmery et al 2020 ; Haas et al 2020 ; Kelly et al 2020 ; Melbourne-Thomas et al 2020 ; Nash et al 2020 ; Novaglio et al 2020 ; Smith et al 2020 ; Trebilco et al 2020 ; Ward et al 2020 ; Willis et al 2020 ), based on their chosen preferences and interests, and initiated and elected to draft a preface for the special issue as a whole (Mustonen et al unpublished).…”
“…We gave less consideration to SDGs that are more relevant to other papers of this special issue (e.g. Farmery et al 2020 focusing on SDG Zero Hunger, Alexander et al submitted to this species issue and considering equity as per SDG 10, and Trebilco et al 2020 discussing climate actions). Fig.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 and Table 1 for a description of the alternative futures in relation to drivers and SDGs; see Table S1 for more details). The offshore Blue Economy also plays a key role in meeting SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and SDG 15 (Climate Actions), but see Farmery et al 2020 , Trebilco et al 2020 and Alexander et al submitted to this special issue for a thorough consideration of these topics in the context of the Future Seas special issues.…”
The ocean economy is experiencing rapid growth that will provide benefits but will also pose environmental and social risks. With limited space and degraded resources in coastal areas, offshore waters will be a particular focus of Blue Economy expansion over the next decade. When emerging and established economic sectors expand in offshore waters (within national Exclusive Economic Zones), different potential Blue Economy opportunities and challenges will arise. Following a series of interdisciplinary workshops, we imagine two technically possible futures for the offshore Blue Economy and we identify the actions required to achieve the more sustainable outcome. Under a business as usual scenario the focus will remain on economic growth, the commodification of nature, the dominance of private over public and cultural interests, and prioritisation of the interests of current over future generations. A more sustainable scenario would meet multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals and ensure inclusive economic developments, environmental sustainability, and fair and equitable access to resources and technologies across users, nations, and generations. Challenges to this more sustainable future are a lack of infrastructure and technology to support emerging offshore sectors, limited understanding of environmental impacts, inequitable outcomes, and a lack of planning and governmental oversight. Addressing these challenges will require a shift in societal values, a more balanced allocation of funding to offshore activities, transparency in information sharing between industries and across nations, and adjustment of international legal and institutional mechanisms. The sustainable and equitable offshore Blue Economy we envisage is achievable and provides a unique opportunity to build global capacity and partnership.
“…Together, these articles consider many of the key challenges facing the world's oceans, and importantly, leveraged interdisciplinary knowledge from across approximately 120 marine scientists, Indigenous knowledge holders, and environmental managers. Collectively, this suite of papers outlined pathways and associated actions to move towards sustainable futures and achieving the SDGs in the context of climate change (Trebilco et al, 2020), biodiversity conservation (Ward et al, 2020), food security (Farmery et al, 2020), ocean literacy (Kelly et al, In press), plastics and pollution (Puskic et al, 2020), human health (Nash et al, 2020b), coastal and deep sea blue economy (Bax et al, 2020), climate-driven species redistribution (Melbourne-Thomas et al, 2020), ocean governance (Haas et al, 2020), international relations (Smith et al, 2020) and Indigenous rights and access (Fischer et al, 2020). In particular, we are interested in how the futures, and the pathways to achieving those futures as described in those papers, may lead to higher or lower levels of equity.…”
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envisage a desirable society where equity is a normative goal that is given attention, and ways to improve inclusivity and diversity of equity beyond concept, process and outcome are being actively explored. Here, we examine how equity is considered in a suite of papers that explored possible sustainable futures for the oceans by 2030, and mapped out pathways to achieve these, collectively aiming to move as far towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as technically feasible. Our analysis revealed that a large range of equity issues were recognised and considered, in outcomebased (i.e. distributive), process-based (i.e. procedural) and concept (i.e. contextual) dimensions. However, often, the equity problem was not explicitly stated, but rather implied through the action pathway identified to move towards a more sustainable 2030, highlighting that reducing inequity is interlinked with improving sustainability. Based on these findings, we reflect on the way equity is conceptualised and considered within this work as well as futures science for the oceans more broadly. These reflections are distilled into lessons learnt, a key one of which is that science and knowledge production are immediate areas where we can work to improve equity in terms of building capacity to understand and include equity issues, develop mechanisms to be more inclusive and diverse and continually, and in particular, critically reflect on our own practices to fundamentally challenge how we work and think in the space of marine science research.
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