Key components of sustainable climate-smart ocean planning

C Frazão Santos, T Agardy, LB Crowder… - npj Ocean …, 2024 - nature.com
Planning of marine areas has spread widely over the past two decades to support
sustainable ocean management and governance. However, to succeed in a changing …

Reflections on the past, present, and potential futures of knowledge hierarchies in ocean biodiversity governance research

HJ Niner, D Wilson, K Hoareau, M Strand… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Governance of the ocean and its biodiversity is deeply entangled within social, political and
cultural histories. The evolution of marine science has been subject to similar influences …

Integrating the multiple perspectives of people and nature in place-based marine spatial planning

LM Wedding, SJ Pittman, CA Lepczyk… - npj Ocean …, 2024 - nature.com
Marine spatial planning (MSP) has emerged as a tool to enable marine ecosystem-based
management that seeks to balance human demands for ocean space with environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations

M Strand, Y Albany, MNL Buthelezi… - Ecology and …, 2024 - ecologyandsociety.org
Although the importance of pursuing meaningful and equitable transdisciplinary research
collaborations with Indigenous and local community members has been established in the …

[HTML][HTML] Building competences for researchers working towards ocean sustainability

J Penca, A Barbanti, C Cvitanovic, A Hamza-Chaffai… - Marine Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The challenges of achieving just, equitable and sustainable ocean futures require a new
type of transdisciplinary and action-oriented science that integrates across disciplines and …

[HTML][HTML] Home environments in an age of precarity

D Stokols, R Barankevich - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Environment-behavior research prior to the 2000s often portrayed homes as relatively self-
contained, insular settings that provided residents refuge from the demands and distractions …

Networked media and information ocean literacy: a transformative approach for UN ocean decade

LC Gerhardinger, AC Colonese, RG Martini… - npj Ocean …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations' Ocean Decade calls for co-designing transformative science,
ocean networks, and learning strategies to address ocean health decline and deep-blue …

Mapping for connection, a life beyond mapping for control: lessons from 'mapping-as-performance'with Empatheatre in South Africa

J Whittingham, D McGarry - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This paper critically examines the intersections of Science, colonialism, and cartography in
shaping perceptions of the ocean and its human-nature relationships. Drawing on …

Strong versus weak sustainable development in the blue economy: a study of 15 EU coastal countries

C Spenger, I Saldivia Gonzatti, L Kröger… - npj Ocean …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract One of the European Union's environmental and sustainable development
objectives is to achieve sustainable marine development, combining the objectives of ocean …

Toward ecosystem-based deep-sea governance: a review of global approaches and China's participation

T Yu, R Liu, Y Jin - Marine Development, 2025 - Springer
The deep sea is an expansive and largely unexplored domain, and its effective governance
requires concerted international efforts. Despite the existence of international frameworks …