What are the major global threats and impacts in marine environments? Investigating the contours of a shared perception among marine scientists from the bottom-up.

Boonstra, Wiebren J.; Ottosen, Katharina Maj; Ferreira, Ana Sofia; Richter, Andries; Rogers, Lauren A.; Pedersen, Martin Wæver; Kokkalis, Alexandros; Bardarson, Hlynur; Bonanomi, Sara; Butler, William E.; Diekert, Florian; Fouzai, Nadia; Holma, Maija; Holt, Rebecca E.; Kvile, Kristina Øie; Malanski, Evandro; Macdonald, Jed I.; Nieminen, Emmi; Romagnoni, Giovanni; Snickars, Martin; Weigel, Benjamin; Woods, Pamela J.; Yletyinen, Johanna; Whittington, Jason D.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2015.06.007

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“…It is increasingly recognized by marine scholars and fisheries managers that institutional failures are an important contributor to deteriorating ocean health (Ekstrom and Young 2009; Boonstra et al 2015;Pauly and Zeller 2016). One way to observe this type of failure is to consider the differences between scientific recommendations and the amount of fish actually caught.…”

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Environmental change and social conflict: the northeast Atlantic mackerel dispute

2017

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A recurrent critique of the proposition of a causal relation between environmental change and social conflict is that it fails to account for the complexities and dynamics of processes of social-ecological change. In this article, we open the black box of contextual factors that influence the causal pathway from environmental change to social conflict. Firstly, we argue for the consideration of three social factors that influence that pathway: (a) institutions, (b) power, and (c) knowledge. Taking a deductive approach, we ascertain their causal importance in the case of the "mackerel dispute," an interstate conflict that unfolded after the abrupt and rapid change in distribution of the northeast Atlantic mackerel stock after 2007. We analyze the historical development of the mackerel dispute through process tracing and demonstrate the importance and causal role of the three factors. Secondly, based on our assessment, we argue to increase the diversity of the scope conditions relevant for the environmental changesocial conflict nexus. We propose to consider a wider variety of conflicts as outcome of environmental change, highincome regions as an arena for those conflicts, and a wider variety of environmental change, such as alterations in abundance in the context of climate change. Lastly, we discuss how future research on this topic can handle the wider scope conditions and greater case variability.

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Section: Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental change and social conflict: the northeast Atlantic mackerel dispute

2017

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“…As a result, we took advantage of early-career workshops to develop our own research questions and student-led initiatives in an attempt to develop interdisciplinarity through trial and error. The scientific publications Boonstra et al (2015), Pedersen et al (2016), and the present study are results of such student-led initiatives.…”

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Avoiding pitfalls in interdisciplinary education

Holt¹,

Woods²,

Ferreira³

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Clim. Res.

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As the world's social-environmental problems increasingly extend across boundaries, both disciplinary and political, there is a growing need for interdisciplinarity, not only in research per se, but also in doctoral education. We present the common pitfalls of interdisciplinary research in doctoral education, illustrating approaches towards solutions using the Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change (NorMER) research network as a case study. We provide insights and detailed examples of how to overcome some of the challenges of conducting interdisciplinary research within doctoral studies that can be applied within any doctoral/postdoctoral education programme, and beyond. Results from a selfevaluation survey indicate that early-career workshops, annual meetings and research visits to other institutions were the most effective learning mechanisms, whereas single discipline-focused courses and coursework were among the least effective learning mechanisms. By identifying the strengths and weaknesses of components of NorMER, this case study can inform the design of future programmes to enhance interdisciplinarity in doctoral education, as well as be applied to science collaboration and academic research in general.

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“…To ameliorate the multiple threats to marine ecosystems (Boonstra et al, 2015;Crain et al, 2008), communicators require effective ways of conveying marine conservation messages to both raise knowledge and awareness and to prompt mitigative behaviours and policy action.…”

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Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

Kolandai-Matchett

Armoudian

2020

Aquatic Conservation

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1. Human activities are a major source of threat to marine ecosystems. Solutions thus require changes to or cessation of those activities in addition to multiple restorative and conservation effortsall of which, in turn, require public support for success. However, scientific understanding of threats to marine ecosystems has not paralleled public understanding of those threats in many jurisdictions. Highly complex, interwoven, distant, vulnerable to multiple stressors, and hosting biota that are biologically unfamiliar to people, marine ecosystems present unique communication challenges. 2. The merits of effective communication capable of motivating behavioural change, policy action and support for marine conservation are often emphasized. To date, however, environmental communication, as a field, has largely focused on terrestrial ecosystems and more recently on climate change, leaving research-informed marine conservation communication neglected. 3. Adding to the small compilation of marine conservation communication literature, this integrative review provides a new understanding of how six message frames (emotional, problem/solution, outcome, value-based, distance, and social norm) can interactively help enhance the effectuality of conservation messages. Insights from the framing-related literature are merged with those from relevant fields including the theoretical literature, and the behavioural, social, and environmental sciences to define concepts, provide examples and explain the relevance of the six identified frames. The potential strength of these frames are discussed and suggestions on how they might be used to communicate different marine conservation issues are provided.

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What are the major global threats and impacts in marine environments? Investigating the contours of a shared perception among marine scientists from the bottom-up.

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

Environmental change and social conflict: the northeast Atlantic mackerel dispute

Environmental change and social conflict: the northeast Atlantic mackerel dispute

Avoiding pitfalls in interdisciplinary education

Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

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