Voices from the water: experience, knowledge, and emotions in long-term ecological research (LTER Italy)

Pugnetti, Alessandra

doi:10.4081/aiol.2020.9508

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“…A successful Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development calls for practical and wise leadership, clear vision, societal involvement, information sharing, admitting the ocean's-and human-vulnerability, and storytelling (Omstedt and Gustavsson, 2022). An example of new information sharing is the depiction of different "voices" from long-term ecological research, telling us how to establish effective dialogue between measurements and society (Pugnetti, 2020).…”

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The complex interactions between humans and the marine environment require new efforts to build beauty and harmony

Omstedt

Gustavsson

2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Human activities give rise to many factors exerting tremendous pressure on the ocean and its coastal seas. Simultaneously, social, political, and ecological environments are highly complex, with many competing interests. Marine system management and governance must therefore integrate many perspectives incorporating human perception and behavior. Here, we discuss how philosophy and science often address the investigation of reality. The starting points are the atomistic and holistic views and their interrelationships. The distinction between particular and universal claims is added to the atomistic and holistic views and broadened to encompass the context; perspectives on processes and system insights into coastal seas are then analyzed. We conclude that an atomistic view risks fragmenting our knowledge and treatment of nature and humans into many separate and conflicting compartments, while a holistic approach opens up the “whole” but at the risk of oversimplification. The distinction between particular and universal claims is essential, and universal human values are critical for reversing the decline in the marine environment. Adding an increasing number of processes to sea management initiatives could risk reducing public interest and increasing alienation from the sea. Atomistic and holistic, particular and universal, or processual and systemic understandings should not be treated as contradictory; instead, our understanding of reality can be transformed when these complementary perspectives meet.

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The complex interactions between humans and the marine environment require new efforts to build beauty and harmony

Omstedt

Gustavsson

2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Voices of the Ocean

Omstedt

2024

A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity

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An ecosystem-based system of variables to enhance marine species and habitat monitoring and conservation: The Adriatic Natura 2000 case study

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Bergami²,

Pugnetti³

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Implementing effective marine monitoring to detect and track ecosystem shifts, biodiversity alteration, and habitat loss is one of the most crucial challenges to meet the objectives set out by the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework and by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The lack of coordinated and harmonized monitoring frameworks at different spatial scales and their weakness in accounting for ecological processes, due to incomplete sets of monitoring variables, strongly hinder the achievement of conservation objectives. Here, we propose an approach to build a coherent ecosystem-based system of monitoring variables for target marine species and habitats. The approach is designed to integrate the existing monitoring frameworks set up by the Water and the Marine Strategy Framework directives, and the Essential Ocean and Biodiversity Variables, with the aim to contribute to their harmonization and implementation. Furthermore, by embracing a holistic vision, it aims to incorporate ecological processes and socio-ecological aspects, considering the benefits of public engagement through citizen science, and of the ecosystem services approach for policies’ implementation. The study stems from the Ecological Observing System of the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS), which was developed in the framework of the Interreg Italy-Croatia project ECOSS, using as exemplary monitoring test cases two relevant conservation targets for Natura 2000 sites of the Adriatic Sea, the common bottlenose dolphin and seagrass meadows. We test the potential of this approach in guiding the prioritization of monitoring variables under ecosystem-based criteria, and provide insights into the benefits delivered by an integrated system of observatories’ networks and monitoring frameworks to support marine conservation at both local and regional scales. The proposed approach can be transferred to other contexts and scales to help build a common knowledge and monitoring framework for conservation and management strategies, saving costs by relying on available resources and on consolidated and long-lasting approaches that might converge towards global initiatives.

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Voices from the water: experience, knowledge, and emotions in long-term ecological research (LTER Italy)

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

The complex interactions between humans and the marine environment require new efforts to build beauty and harmony

The complex interactions between humans and the marine environment require new efforts to build beauty and harmony

Voices of the Ocean

An ecosystem-based system of variables to enhance marine species and habitat monitoring and conservation: The Adriatic Natura 2000 case study

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