The rapidly evolving ocean economy, driven by human needs for food, energy,
transportation and recreation, has led to unprecedented pressures on the ocean that are …

Corporations are perceived as increasingly powerful and critically important to ensuring that
irreversible climatological or ecological tipping points on Earth are not crossed …

Does humanity's future lie in the ocean? As demand for resources continues to grow and
land-based sources decline, expectations for the ocean as an engine of human …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore
how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be …

Measurements of the status and trends of key indicators for the ocean and marine life are
required to inform policy and management in the context of growing human uses of marine …

Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing
acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food …

Abstract The United Nations are currently negotiating a new international legally-binding
instrument to govern the global ocean commons, a vast area beyond national jurisdiction …

The distributions of migratory species in the ocean span local, national and international
jurisdictions. Across these ecologically interconnected regions, migratory marine species …

Migratory marine species cross political borders and enter the high seas, where the lack of
an effective global management framework for biodiversity leaves them vulnerable to …