A Sustainable Development Goal for the Ocean and Coasts: Global ocean challenges benefit from regional initiatives supporting globally coordinated solutions

Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara; Rickels, Wilfried; Schmidt, Jörn O.; Doorn, Erik van; Matz-Lück, Nele; Proelß, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2014.02.010

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“…Scientific research and knowledge is central not only to understanding the ocean but also to developing ways in which we can benefit from its services and resources in a sustainable way; providing solutions to today's problems, without compromising the abilities of future generations to solve theirs (Scientific Advice Mechanism 2017; Visbeck et al 2014). Essentially, understanding the complex relationship between humans and the marine environment is central to implementing sustainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

Training the 21st Century Marine Professional: A new vision for marine graduate education and training programmes in Europe

Vincx¹,

Antia²,

Deprez³

et al. 2019

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As the Ocean continues to be a focus for development in Europe through the European Commission’s Blue Growth initiative and through the Blue Economy, the importance of the marine and maritime industries will continue to grow. The knowledge, experience and innovative ideas needed to enable this development will be largely supplied by future marine professionals, or the marine graduates of today. Subsequently, the envisioned growth will require a skilled workforce of highly training and multi-skilled graduates from a wide variety of marine and maritime professional backgrounds. In addition, less established areas such as marine biotechnology and marine renewable energy may require new knowledge, skills, collaboration and innovation.It is therefore timely to examine the current marine graduate education and training system, identifying issues, challenges and opportunities. This Future Science Brief explores this complex landscape, to better understand the current status of education systems, and research and training funding mechanisms. It then looks at options to improve current capabilities across Europe at both Masters and Doctoral levels, and outlines a vision for the future of marine and maritime education and training in Europe. Case studies are presented to illustrate good practice, alongside interviews with recent marine graduates who have themselves benefitted from innovative training opportunities. The Future Science Brief then identifies ways in which to improve and broaden the skills and capabilities of the next generation of graduates. This includes enabling exposure to industry, encouraging interdisciplinary research and promoting the importance of transferable skills to graduates and industry alike. It closes by presenting 6 key recommendations for the future development of marine graduate training in Europe, and calls for collaboration between key actors from the marine education community, the marine and maritime industries, and research funding to come together to jointly develop an education and training system which will benefit all.

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Section: Discovering Understanding Sustainably Using and Managing Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

Training the 21st Century Marine Professional: A new vision for marine graduate education and training programmes in Europe

Vincx¹,

Antia²,

Deprez³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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“…Consensus now is that ocean governance in the Anthropocene (e.g., Zondervan et al, 2013)-a new era in which natural systems are extensively affected by human agency (Biermann, 2014;Steffen et al, 2015), poses three principal challenges: the interconnectedness of marine systems; the rising pressures on common resources; and the need for enhanced global coordination in governance. These challenges are to be addressed by social innovators, for instance in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the adoption of ocean sustainability as one of the 17 SDGs (Visbeck et al, 2014;ICSU, ISSC, 2015); in the preparations for the negotiation of a new implementing agreement on biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (high-seas) under the United Nations Convention Law of the Sea; in the completion of the first World Ocean Assessment (2016-www.worldoceanassessment.org); in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; and in the Paris Climate Agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2016). These processes (amongst others, see review by Campbell et al, 2016) have led to increased interest, and renewed global ocean related efforts in a variety of policy fields.…”

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Healing Brazil's Blue Amazon: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Nurturing Cross-Scale Transformations at the Frontlines of Ocean Sustainability

Gerhardinger

Gorris

Gonçalves³

et al. 2018

Front. Mar. Sci.

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HIGHLIGHTS• The Anthropocene compels unlocking of ocean-related network capabilities.• Orchestration of local, regional, and global knowledge networks can augment transformative capacity.• Transdisciplinary network diagnostics are promising social learning tools.• Strategic advice for transformational research in ocean territories are provided. This paper dedicates to understanding of what is needed to achieve the transformation of ocean governance. Based on the theory of transformative agency conceptualized in a multi-level governance context, we build on recent novel inter-and transdisciplinary research in Brazil to explore the opportunities for transformation in the dynamic, complex, and multi-level field of ocean governance. We focus this analysis on three transformation processes toward developing a socially and ecologically coherent marine protected area network as the core of a marine spatial planning process for enhanced ecosystem-based polycentric governance of the country's Exclusive Economic Zone. The findings illuminate leverage points for achieving (much needed) transformation in Brazilian ocean governance and potentially beyond. These include: connecting transformative actions into coherent narratives and testing strategic advice derived from theories of transformative agency to promote regime shifts in ocean governance systems; setting of more ambitious social mobilization targets; fostering orchestration of knowledge-networks considering multiple issues, territorial and institutional levels; implementing institutional learning experiments; supporting transformational trajectories toward co-evolutionary, polycentric, ecosystem-and area-based ocean governance systems; and pursuing gradual, incremental structural understanding of Gerhardinger et al. Healing the Blue Amazon with Knowledge-Action Networks a given knowledge network field as a major driver of catalyzing transformative change. Hereby, this article advances understanding of how to better navigate the transformation toward enhanced sustainability in an important part of the Atlantic and hence of our global ocean.

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“…In the high seas, which are essentially devoid of rights, PES is not currently thought to be feasible (Lau 2012). However, the concept of 'side payments' is being explored for internationally shared tuna stocks (Bailey 2013), and with the right cooperative institutional arrangements and industry-wide agreements, a high-seas PES scheme might help address current weaknesses in highseas governance (Aqorau 2007;Blasiak et al 2014;Visbeck et al 2014).…”

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“…At a regional or national scale, this might entail the integration of community-level organizations, government agencies and NGOs. On an international scale, a PES might be integrated into pre-existing multilateral environmental agreements such as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which would benefit from increased international coordination (Habtezion 2013;Visbeck et al 2014). Lessons in multi-scale PES governance can be drawn from Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+; Van Noordwijk et al 2012).…”

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Payments for ecosystem services in developing world fisheries

Bladon

Short²,

Mohammed

et al. 2014

Fish and Fisheries

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, polymath, playwright, Nobel prize winner, and the most prolific letter writer in history, was an advocate of English spelling reform. He was reportedly fond of pointing out its absurdities by proving that 'fish' could be spelt 'ghoti'. That is: 'gh' as in 'rough', 'o' as in 'women' and 'ti' as in palatial.Payments for ecosystem services in developing world fisheries AbstractPayments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is a powerful economic tool that gives positive conditional incentives for the provision of additional ecosystem services over the status quo, which has been used widely in terrestrial conservation. Interest in the concept of marine PES has recently emerged, but the fluid, transboundary and often common pool nature of marine ecosystems presents challenges for PES design and implementation. Here, we consider the potential role of PES in addressing current gaps in fisheries management. Used in combination with conventional regulatory approaches, PES may increase private sector engagement and generate more sustainable financing for fisheries management whilst spreading accountability throughout the supply chain. The approach is most likely to be feasible and effective in commercially valuable fisheries with: (i) demand for one or more ecosystem service and a threat to supply; (ii) suitable baseline data available and potential management actions underpinned by robust science; (iii) clarity and security of property rights; (iv) capacity for hybrid multi-level governance; (v) capacity for rigorous monitoring, control and surveillance; and (vi) potential for financial sustainability of the scheme. An examination of four contrasting fisheries -Namibian hake, Mozambican shallow-water shrimp, Western and Central Pacific skipjack

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A Sustainable Development Goal for the Ocean and Coasts: Global ocean challenges benefit from regional initiatives supporting globally coordinated solutions

Cited by 31 publications

References 3 publications

Training the 21st Century Marine Professional: A new vision for marine graduate education and training programmes in Europe

Training the 21st Century Marine Professional: A new vision for marine graduate education and training programmes in Europe

Healing Brazil's Blue Amazon: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Nurturing Cross-Scale Transformations at the Frontlines of Ocean Sustainability

Payments for ecosystem services in developing world fisheries

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