About this Research Topic
This rupture raises several questions to be addressed during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, namely:
• The need for new marine governance frameworks at national, regional and global levels;
• The (un)sustainability of the economic exploration of the ocean;
• The need for ecosystem-based, integrated and adaptive management of the ocean, including large marine ecosystems (LME);
• The monitoring of marine social-ecological systems and blue economy with appropriate indicators;
• The spatial planning of abyssal funds and the expansion of marine conservation areas beyond national jurisdictions;
• The evolution of polar regimes considering the impacts of climate change.
Proposed topics
1. New frontiers in marine biodiversity conservation
• Protecting biodiversity for climate reasons: Compensation, carbone sink, climate refugia
• Governance of transboundary MPA’s
• Conservation of areas beyond national jurisdiction
• Ecosystem-based marine spatial planning
• Governance of Large Marine Ecosystems (LME)
2. The new blue deal: Political, social, institutional and legal challenges
• From green deal to blue deal.
• Blue economy: new political instruments and institutional frameworks
• Integrated Maritime policies, Blue growth and MSP: impacts on legal frameworks
• New frontiers in social equity and justice
• Impacts of the new stakeholders framework in the marine space
• Inclusion of local stakeholders and indigenous peoples
• The competition for maritime space
• Renewable ocean energy
• Mining and governance at deep sea
• Sustainability science and blue economy
• New science-policy interfaces
3. New frontiers of governance under a changing climate
• Polar regimes
• Climate change and adaptive management
• Adaptative ocean management
• Climate-smart marine spatial planning
Keywords: ocean governance, marine policy, UNCLOS, Marine governance, ocean decade
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