Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy

Winther, Jan‐Gunnar; Dai, Minyue; Rist, Therese; Hoel, Alf Håkon; Li, Yangfan; Trice, Amy; Morrissey, Karyn; Juinio‐Meñez, Marie Antonette; Fernandes, Leanne; Unger, Sebastian; Scarano, Fábio Rúbio; Halpin, Patrick N.; Whitehouse, Sandra

doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1259-6

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“…This platform comes at a cost, estimated to be roughly from USD 500 million to 1 billion per year (Claudet et al 2020 ), but the benefits are cross-sectoral. Efficient information sharing and cooperation across government, society, industry, and academia lead to agreed and evidence-based measures for marine environmental protection, speed up innovation, and encourage learning (Stuiver et al 2016 ; Winther et al 2020 ). Information sharing also reduces the individual costs of assessments and planning processes, and accelerates action and sustainable solutions.…”

Section: The Alternative Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…the International Seabed Authority, the World Trade Organisation and the International Maritime Organisation), needs to be expanded to include all sectors and countries. The aim is to facilitate and regulate collection and integration of this data and, most importantly, to encourage knowledge exchange which supports integrated ocean management and innovation (action 20; Winther et al 2020 ). There is a need to establish clear guidelines on how to achieve knowledge exchange while protecting Intellectual Property that are enforced by national regulators (action 21; UN Global Compact 2019 ; Claudet et al 2020 ).…”

Section: Pathway Towards a More Sustainable Offshore Blue Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy

Novaglio

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Boschetti

et al. 2021

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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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.

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Section: The Alternative Futuresmentioning

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Section: Pathway Towards a More Sustainable Offshore Blue Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy

Novaglio

Bax

Boschetti

et al. 2021

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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“…Integrated ocean management has been identified as the future methodology to achieving sustainable and resilient marine ecosystems by managing the progress of economic development whilst minimizing environmental impact (Winther et al, 2020). The research priorities proposed here would strengthen the data system needed for ocean policy and progress in governance of marine areas.…”

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Satellite Observations Are Needed to Understand Ocean Acidification and Multi-Stressor Impacts on Fish Stocks in a Changing Arctic Ocean

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It is widely projected that under future climate scenarios the economic importance of Arctic Ocean fish stocks will increase. The Arctic Ocean is especially vulnerable to ocean acidification and already experiences low pH levels not projected to occur on a global scale until 2100. This paper outlines how ocean acidification must be considered with other potential stressors to accurately predict movement of fish stocks toward, and within, the Arctic and to inform future fish stock management strategies. First, we review the literature on ocean acidification impacts on fish, next we identify the main obstacles that currently preclude ocean acidification from Arctic fish stock projections. Finally, we provide a roadmap to describe how satellite observations can be used to address these gaps: improve knowledge, inform experimental studies, provide regional assessments of vulnerabilities, and implement appropriate management strategies. This roadmap sets out three inter-linked research priorities: (1) Establish organisms and ecosystem physiochemical baselines by increasing the coverage of Arctic physicochemical observations in both space and time; (2) Understand the variability of all stressors in space and time; (3) Map life histories and fish stocks against satellite-derived observations of stressors.

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“…The United Nation's Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development starting in 2021 may further develop collaboration across disciplines and between nations. On the international scene, the high-level panel for a sustainable ocean economy (101,102), led by the current Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, can be expected to profoundly contribute to this development, not least due to its international and interdisciplinary perspective.…”

Section: Committed To the Ocean: Lessons Learnedmentioning

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Attuning to a changing ocean

Stenseth

Payne

Bonsdorff

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The ocean is a lifeline for human existence, but current practices risk severely undermining ocean sustainability. Present and future social−ecological challenges necessitate the maintenance and development of knowledge and action by stimulating collaboration among scientists and between science, policy, and practice. Here we explore not only how such collaborations have developed in the Nordic countries and adjacent seas but also how knowledge from these regions contributes to an understanding of how to obtain a sustainable ocean. Our collective experience may be summarized in three points: 1) In the absence of long-term observations, decision-making is subject to high risk arising from natural variability; 2) in the absence of established scientific organizations, advice to stakeholders often relies on a few advisors, making them prone to biased perceptions; and 3) in the absence of trust between policy makers and the science community, attuning to a changing ocean will be subject to arbitrary decision-making with unforeseen and negative ramifications. Underpinning these observations, we show that collaboration across scientific disciplines and stakeholders and between nations is a necessary condition for appropriate actions.

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Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy

Cited by 117 publications

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Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy

Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy

Satellite Observations Are Needed to Understand Ocean Acidification and Multi-Stressor Impacts on Fish Stocks in a Changing Arctic Ocean

Attuning to a changing ocean

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