Networked Knowledge to Action in Support of Ocean Sustainability

Bayliss‐Brown, Georgia; Gerhardinger, Leopoldo Cavaleri; Starger, Craig J.

doi:10.1080/08920753.2020.1778426

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“…This would facilitate autonomous, decentralised ocean knowledge co-production at policy interfaces where problems and opportunities emerge, hence improving the responsiveness governance regimes. This vision might be achieved through the creative combination of applications in networked knowledge-to-action 35,45,46 , the co-design of ocean scenarios and pathways 47 , and the use of plural valuation 48 . Integrated and deliberative (e.g.…”

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An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable ocean future

Gaill

Rudolph

Lebleu³

et al. 2022

npj Ocean Sustain

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The ocean has recently taken centre stage in the global geopolitical landscape. Despite rising challenges to the effectiveness of multilateralism, attention to ocean issues appears as an opportunity to co-create pathways to ocean sustainability at multiple levels. The ocean science community, however, is not sufficiently well organised to advance these pathways and provide policy input. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services demonstrate how knowledge consensus and integration have been instrumental in charting global pathways and eliciting commitments to address, respectively, climate change and biodiversity loss. An equally impactful global platform with a thematic focus on ocean sustainability is needed. Here we introduce the International Panel for Ocean Sustainability (IPOS) as a coordinating mechanism to integrate knowledge systems to forge a bridge across ocean science-policy divides collectively. The IPOS will enrich the global policy debate in the Ocean Decade and support a shift toward ocean sustainability.

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An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable ocean future

Gaill

Rudolph

Lebleu³

et al. 2022

npj Ocean Sustain

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“…The existing sequence of ocean governance is vertical from the international level down to the national level; this has resulted in a patchwork of regional MEAs and national policies on different levels [159]. This fragmentation in ocean governance mechanisms at global and regional levels is because of the crumbling processes of negotiations for IEL and has caused gaps in implementation.…”

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Preserving Community’s Environmental Interests in a Meta-Ocean Governance Framework towards Sustainable Development Goal 14: A Mechanism of Promoting Coordination between Institutions Responsible for Curbing Marine Pollution

Zulfiqar

Butt

2021

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The United Nations has recently recognised the global community’s environmental interests in ocean governance through the Sustainable Development Goal 14. The marine environmental protection targets stand in need of rejuvenating international environmental law, which fosters interconnection between oceans, climate, and terrestrial ecosystems. The existing literature on this aspect of ocean governance, however, is segregated and lacks an ecosystem-based approach. Therefore, a comprehensive review of the literature on ocean governance with an ecosystem-based approach becomes essential and is conducted through this research. This research has proposed that ocean governance programmes and plans need to be re-arranged under established legal frameworks at national and regional levels. Such a challenge can be addressed by taking the elements of governance provided by the list of targets of sustainable development goals. This research has facilitated the given hypothesis via a meta-ocean-governance framework that incorporates a deliberate regional monitoring system, intergovernmental review, capacity building techniques, national action through strong institutions, scientific decision making, and policy coherence. The idea is to fit the conceptualisation of ocean governance under international environmental law in the existing initiatives within a box of institutions to coordinate and encourage an ecosystem-based approach.

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“…Transdisciplinary research can function as a wildcard in the establishment of marine governance ‘transition arenas’ (Kelly et al 2018 )–an idea resonating with proponents of somewhat related concepts and applications in the ocean governance realm such as ‘policy-experimentation’ (Fox et al 2013 ), the formation of ‘learning-networks’ (Christie et al 2016 ; Dalton et al 2020 ), ‘knowledge-networks’ (Cvitanovic 2017 ), and a range of other networked-knowledge to action approach aiming to facilitate interaction, knowledge-exchange and learning by and between social innovators (Bayliss-Brown et al 2020 ). However, while frameworks and tools have been developed to assess and support change in ocean governance, Kelly et al ( 2018 ) reviewed the most cited academic papers in the field to find out that much of the research is still naively impotent to deal with fragmentation in ocean governance systems.…”

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Envisioning ocean governability transformations through network-based marine spatial planning

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The globally accelerating environmental crisis calls for radical changes in the governance of ocean resources towards a more sustainable and socially equitable world. Transdisciplinary sustainability research and networked knowledge-to-action approaches are critical parts of this change. The effective application of such approaches still puzzles social actors (individuals and networks) willing to act in more transformative ways. We conducted twelve participatory network mapping activities to assess the perception of high-level federal government institutional entrepreneurs on the structure and dynamics of an emerging socio-political arena for marine spatial planning (MSP) in Brazil. Our informants, mostly cognizant of their own intra-governmental structures, anticipate the MSP arena to remain self-enclosed, with changes only occurring within the federal government structures in the coming years. Their perceptions were largely conservative, narrow, and unambitious and therefore unfit to generate regime transformations. The limited awareness of response capacities beyond the federal government potentially leads to the endurement of the low performance already present in the MSP arena. Results from the participatory network mapping informed a five-step functional ocean governability analysis pointing to key potential contributions to support a critical turn in MSP: 1. envision situated interactional narratives to leverage regime shifts; 2. build a shared understanding of and anticipating transformative coevolutionary dynamics; 3. build awareness of the potential synergies among disparate but innovative area-based responses; 4. specify inter-network-based limitations and the necessary changes underpinning potential leaps in performance levels of ocean governance orders; 5. make power asymmetries explicit to stir structurally tailored strategic action by less influential groups. We discuss the potential role of inter-network strategies and actions and how they may confront the symptoms of depoliticized MSP pathways and the risks of it becoming an instrument of further marginalisation and power asymmetry in Brazil. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40152-021-00250-1.

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Networked Knowledge to Action in Support of Ocean Sustainability

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An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable ocean future

An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable ocean future

Preserving Community’s Environmental Interests in a Meta-Ocean Governance Framework towards Sustainable Development Goal 14: A Mechanism of Promoting Coordination between Institutions Responsible for Curbing Marine Pollution

Envisioning ocean governability transformations through network-based marine spatial planning

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