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A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance
This prescient Research Agenda explores innovative and interdisciplinary pathways forward for ocean governance. Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila bring together an international array of expert authors, providing a roadmap for shaping ocean governance across the globe to achieve long-term sustainability.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in each area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This prescient Research Agenda explores innovative and interdisciplinary pathways forward for ocean governance. Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila bring together an international array of expert authors, providing a roadmap for shaping ocean governance across the globe to achieve long-term sustainability.
Chapters examine the practices and governance of ocean fisheries and how past reforms can inform better methods moving forward. They consider international cooperation and local practices for sustainable oceans, with examples including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and marine spatial planning. The book further analyses emergent themes, expanding on the impact of deep-sea tourism and plastic pollution on the oceans. Ultimately, this Research Agenda generates ideas for inclusive, equitable, and impactful future ocean research at a time of unprecedented collective ambition.
A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance is an essential read for students, scholars, and researchers within the fields of political science, economics, the natural sciences, law, and geography. It will also be a valuable resource for practitioners and policymakers interested in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and ensuring sustainable ocean practices.
This prescient Research Agenda explores innovative and interdisciplinary pathways forward for ocean governance. Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila bring together an international array of expert authors, providing a roadmap for shaping ocean governance across the globe to achieve long-term sustainability.
Chapters examine the practices and governance of ocean fisheries and how past reforms can inform better methods moving forward. They consider international cooperation and local practices for sustainable oceans, with examples including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and marine spatial planning. The book further analyses emergent themes, expanding on the impact of deep-sea tourism and plastic pollution on the oceans. Ultimately, this Research Agenda generates ideas for inclusive, equitable, and impactful future ocean research at a time of unprecedented collective ambition.
A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance is an essential read for students, scholars, and researchers within the fields of political science, economics, the natural sciences, law, and geography. It will also be a valuable resource for practitioners and policymakers interested in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and ensuring sustainable ocean practices.
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‘This important work lays bare the institutions and worldviews that currently constrain effective ocean governance, and suggests tangible ways to engage in what many of the authors call the difficult discussions needed to transform the status quo, including the research needed to base governance on holistic ecology with justice and equity at its core. Practical guidance on using tools such as MPAs, MSP, as well as existing treaties is given, with an emphasis on iterative, organic governance enhancements and on finding ways to ensure that the perfect is not the enemy of the good.’
– Tundi Agardy, Sound Seas, USA
– Tundi Agardy, Sound Seas, USA
Contents
Contents
PART I Setting the stage
1 Future research for a healthy ocean 3
Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila
2 The human conquest of the Earth and oceans 15
Daniel Pauly
PART II Ocean justice
3 Ocean governance and the protection of ocean defenders 25
Philippe Le Billon, Dyhia Belhabib, Nathan J. Bennett, Irmak
Ertör, Rocío López de la Lama, Elisa Morgera, Lina M.
Saavedra-Díaz and Paula Satizábal
4 Original instructions for the World Ocean: an Indigenist
research agenda 39
Peter J. Jacques
5 Making justice explicit in decision-making for
transformative ocean governance 51
Laura M. Pereira, Tomas Chaigneau and Rafael Almeida Magris
PART III Governing fisheries
6 Managing the high seas to achieve Infinity Fish 65
U. Rashid Sumaila
7 Governance of high seas fisheries 71
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
8 Researching IUU: a fishy category? 83
J. Samuel Barkin and Chris T. Langevin
9 Learning from the unexpected: informing better policies
from a past reform of fisheries subsidies 93
Fernando Aranceta-Garza and Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
PART I Ocean governance and international regimes
10 Institutional integration: addressing overlaps and gaps in
ocean governance 109
Oran R. Young
11 Systemic integration, the law of the sea, and courts:
constraints and opportunities for ocean governance 121
Margaret A. Young
12 Drivers and mechanisms of change in UNLOS: an
international relations research agenda 135
Elizabeth Mendenhall
13 The global politics of marine protected areas 149
Justin Alger
PART Advancing practice
14 Five actions to close the gap between marine spatial
planning research and practice 163
Julie M. Reimer, Rodolphe Devillers, Natalie C. Ban, Maxine
Westhead and Joachim Claudet
15 Rethinking cost–benefit analysis for sustainable marine
spatial planning 175
Ibrahim Issifu, Ilyass Dahmouni, Iria García–Lorenzo and U.
Rashid Sumaila
16 Evaluating climate risk at the right scale: local lessons from
the limate and Ocean Risk ulnerability Initiative (ORI) 185
Sally Yozell, Tracy Rouleau, Natalie Fiertz and Carolyn Gruber
17 Understanding the ocean within the aquatic system for
sustainable fisheries 201
Shehu Latunji Akintola, Isa Olalekan Elegbede, Abdulwakil
Olawale Saba, Olanrewaju Femi Olagunju, Akinkunmi
Sunday Ojo, Isaac Kofi Osei and Denis Worlanyo Aheto
18 Toward sustainable ocean governance: research for
inclusive and equitable development in Indonesia 215
Umi Muawanah, Zamroni Salim and Agus Eko Nugroho
PART I Emerging themes
19ringing visitors to the ocean world? Emerging issues in
deep sea exploration and tourism 231
John Hannigan and Greg Richards
20 Identifying knowledge gaps in the politics of marine plastic
pollution 245
Babet de Groot, Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne
PART I Setting the stage
1 Future research for a healthy ocean 3
Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila
2 The human conquest of the Earth and oceans 15
Daniel Pauly
PART II Ocean justice
3 Ocean governance and the protection of ocean defenders 25
Philippe Le Billon, Dyhia Belhabib, Nathan J. Bennett, Irmak
Ertör, Rocío López de la Lama, Elisa Morgera, Lina M.
Saavedra-Díaz and Paula Satizábal
4 Original instructions for the World Ocean: an Indigenist
research agenda 39
Peter J. Jacques
5 Making justice explicit in decision-making for
transformative ocean governance 51
Laura M. Pereira, Tomas Chaigneau and Rafael Almeida Magris
PART III Governing fisheries
6 Managing the high seas to achieve Infinity Fish 65
U. Rashid Sumaila
7 Governance of high seas fisheries 71
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
8 Researching IUU: a fishy category? 83
J. Samuel Barkin and Chris T. Langevin
9 Learning from the unexpected: informing better policies
from a past reform of fisheries subsidies 93
Fernando Aranceta-Garza and Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
PART I Ocean governance and international regimes
10 Institutional integration: addressing overlaps and gaps in
ocean governance 109
Oran R. Young
11 Systemic integration, the law of the sea, and courts:
constraints and opportunities for ocean governance 121
Margaret A. Young
12 Drivers and mechanisms of change in UNLOS: an
international relations research agenda 135
Elizabeth Mendenhall
13 The global politics of marine protected areas 149
Justin Alger
PART Advancing practice
14 Five actions to close the gap between marine spatial
planning research and practice 163
Julie M. Reimer, Rodolphe Devillers, Natalie C. Ban, Maxine
Westhead and Joachim Claudet
15 Rethinking cost–benefit analysis for sustainable marine
spatial planning 175
Ibrahim Issifu, Ilyass Dahmouni, Iria García–Lorenzo and U.
Rashid Sumaila
16 Evaluating climate risk at the right scale: local lessons from
the limate and Ocean Risk ulnerability Initiative (ORI) 185
Sally Yozell, Tracy Rouleau, Natalie Fiertz and Carolyn Gruber
17 Understanding the ocean within the aquatic system for
sustainable fisheries 201
Shehu Latunji Akintola, Isa Olalekan Elegbede, Abdulwakil
Olawale Saba, Olanrewaju Femi Olagunju, Akinkunmi
Sunday Ojo, Isaac Kofi Osei and Denis Worlanyo Aheto
18 Toward sustainable ocean governance: research for
inclusive and equitable development in Indonesia 215
Umi Muawanah, Zamroni Salim and Agus Eko Nugroho
PART I Emerging themes
19ringing visitors to the ocean world? Emerging issues in
deep sea exploration and tourism 231
John Hannigan and Greg Richards
20 Identifying knowledge gaps in the politics of marine plastic
pollution 245
Babet de Groot, Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne
