scholarly journals Navigating a just and inclusive path towards sustainable oceans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
Blue Economy

The ocean is the next frontier for many conservation and development activities. Growth in marine protected areas, fisheries management, the blue economy, and marine spatial planning initiatives are occurring both within and beyond national jurisdictions. This mounting activity has coincided with increasing concerns about sustainability and international attention to ocean governance. Yet, despite growing concerns about exclusionary decision-making processes and social injustices, there remains inadequate attention to issues of social justice and inclusion in ocean science, management, governance and funding. In a rapidly changing and progressively busier ocean, we need to learn from past mistakes and identify ways to navigate a just and inclusive path towards sustainability. Proactive attention to inclusive decision-making and social justice is needed across key ocean policy realms including marine conservation, fisheries management, marine spatial planning, the blue economy, climate adaptation and global ocean governance for both ethical and instrumental reasons. This discussion paper aims to stimulate greater engagement with these critical topics. It is a call to action for ocean-focused researchers, policy-makers, managers, practitioners, and funders.

Marine Spatial Planning: Bangladesh Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Md. Asraful Alam
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
Blue Economy ◽  
One Step

The concept of Blue Economy has triggered the coastal states to explore their marine resources from their own maritime boundaries. Bangladesh has to be one step advance in the competition as its land based resources are very limited in comparison to its huge population. It must be very critical for Bangladesh if it does not have a well-planned policy adopted in considering both the economic and environmental aspects. MSP can only be the process for Bangladesh to go ahead for consumption of marine resources without jeopardy to marine environment. The existing national policies, plans and legislations for ocean governance are very scattered in nature which needs to be an integrated and uniform legal stand. The study analysis those legal loopholes and recommends for an effective MSP in the Bay of Bengal.

scholarly journals Ocean data portals: Performing a new infrastructure for ocean governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noëlle Boucquey ◽  
Kevin St. Martin ◽  
Luke Fairbanks ◽  
Lisa M Campbell ◽  
Sarah Wise
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Critical Cartography ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
The World ◽  
New Infrastructure

We are currently in what might be termed a “third phase” of ocean enclosures around the world. This phase has involved an unprecedented intensity of map-making that supports an emerging regime of ocean governance where resources are geocoded, multiple and disparate marine uses are weighed against each other, spatial tradeoffs are made, and exclusive rights to spaces and resources are established. The discourse and practice of marine spatial planning inform the contours of this emerging regime. This paper examines the infrastructure of marine spatial planning via two ocean data portals recently created to support marine spatial planning on the East Coast of the United States. Applying theories of ontological politics, critical cartography, and a critical conceptualization of “care,” we examine portal performances in order to link their organization and imaging practices with the ideological and ontological work these infrastructures do, particularly in relation to environmental and human community actors. We further examine how ocean ontologies may be made durable through portal use and repetition, but also how such performances can “slip,” thereby creating openings for enacting marine spatial planning differently. Our analysis reveals how portal infrastructures assemble, edit, and visualize data, and how it matters to the success of particular performances of marine spatial planning.

scholarly journals Revisiting Approaches to Marine Spatial Planning: Perspectives on and Implications for the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison W. Bates
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Spatial Allocation ◽  
Multiple Pressures ◽  
Integrated Assessments

Marine spatial planning (MSP) offers an operational framework to address sustainable and well-planned use of ocean space. Spatial allocation has traditionally been single-sector, which fails to account for multiple pressures on the marine environment and user conflicts. There is a need for integrated assessments of ocean space to advance quantitative tools and decision-making. Using the example of offshore wind energy, this article offers thoughts about how MSP has evolved in the United States and how the varying scales of MSP achieve different outcomes. Finally, a review of quantitative and qualitative studies that are needed to support MSP are presented.

scholarly journals Coast to ocean: a Fife-eye view: ocean literacy in Fife, Scotland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Spoors ◽  
C.D.B. Leakey ◽  
M.A. James ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Ocean Literacy ◽  
Lasting Change ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
The Way

[Extract from Executive Summary] Ocean Literacy (OL), or Ocean Citizenship, is the basis of a movement to sway positive, lasting change in communities that will benefit the sea, coast and climate. An ocean literate person is understanding of the ocean’s influence on their own lives, as well as the way that their behaviours influence the ocean and is knowledgeable concerning ocean threats. A degree of informed-ness (or ‘literacy’) is thought to inspire effective communication and allow for impactful decision-making regarding personal lifestyle and behaviours, which are subsequently beneficial to the marine and coastal environment. Not only that, a collective OL mindset may be translated into policy, informing marine spatial planning authorities of people’s expectations regarding their marine and coastal spaces.

scholarly journals Assessing the effects of habitat patches ensuring propagule supply and different costs inclusion in marine spatial planning through multivariate analyses

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Appolloni
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Reserve Design ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Gulf Of Naples ◽  
Propagule Supply

Marine Protected Areas are considered key tools for conservation of coastal ecosystems. However, manyreserves are characterized by several problems mainly related to inadequate zonings that often do notprotect high biodiversity and propagule supply areas precluding, at the same time, economic importantzones for local interests. The Gulf of Naples is here employed as a study area to assess the effects ofinclusion of different conservation features and costs in reserve design process. In particular eight scenariosare developed using graph theory to identify propagule source patches and fishing and exploitationactivities as costs-in-use for local population. Scenarios elaborated by MARXAN, softwarecommonly used for marine conservation planning, are compared using multivariate analyses (MDS,PERMANOVA and PERMDISP) in order to assess input data having greatest effects on protected areasselection.MARXAN is heuristic software able to give a number of different correct results, all of them near to thebest solution. Its outputs show that the most important areas to be protected, in order to ensure longtermhabitat life and adequate propagule supply, are mainly located around the Gulf islands. In additionthrough statistical analyses it allowed us to prove that different choices on conservation featureslead to statistically different scenarios. The presence of propagule supply patches forces MARXAN toselect almost the same areas to protect decreasingly different MARXAN results and, thus, choices forreserves area selection.The multivariate analyses applied here to marine spatial planning proved to be very helpful allowing toidentify i) how different scenario input data affect MARXAN and ii) what features have to be taken intoaccount in study areas characterized by peculiar biological and economic interests.

scholarly journals Un-gendering the ocean: Why women matter in ocean governance for sustainability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELENA GISSI ◽  
Portman Michelle ◽  
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
Talent Pool ◽  
The Common

This viewpoint emphasizes gendered perspectives and reflects on gender roles for sustainability-focused governance. It argues that when considering gender in this context, not only equity, or power-plays between genders are at stake; in addition, for effective ocean governance, an irreducible contribution of female voices is necessary. Some key contributions of women in the field of ocean governance-related research are described as examples. If women, for instance, are not included in fisheries management, we miss the complete picture of social-ecological linkages of marine ecosystems. Overall, women are often regarded as major actors driving sustainable development because of their inclusiveness and collaborative roles. Similarly, women have advocated for the common good in marine conservation, raising important (and often neglected) concerns. In maritime industries, women enlarge the talent pool for innovation and smart growth. Besides the manifold possibilities for promoting the involvement of women in ocean governance and policy-making, this viewpoint highlights how gendered biases still influence our interactions with the ocean. It is necessary to reduce the structural, and systemically-embedded hurdles that continue to lead to gendered decision-taking with regard to the ocean.

Marine spatial planning and ocean accounting: Synergistic tools enhancing integration in ocean governance

Marine Policy ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 104936
Author(s):  
Jordan Gacutan ◽  
Ibon Galparsoro ◽  
Kemal Pınarbaşı ◽  
Arantza Murillas ◽  
Ibukun J. Adewumi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Ocean Governance
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