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COST Connect Workshop ldquoThe Blue Planet ndash What future for
European Ocean Researchrdquo
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) represented OceanGov at the COST Connect workshop ldquoThe Blue Planet ndash What future for European Ocean Researchrdquo in Brussels Belgium June 13 ndash 14 2019 The COST Connect workshop on oceans was organised by the COST Associa-tion and aimed for enabling a debate between research-ers policy-makers and funding organisations active in the wider field of oceans Among the participants were members of EU institutions NGOs and scientific institu-tions as well as the following twelve running COST actions
bull Impact of Fluid circulation in old oceanic Lithosphere on the seismicity of transform-type plate boundaries new solutions for early seismic monitoring of major European Seismogenic zones (ES1301)
bull Marine gas hydrate - an indigenous resource of natural gas for Europe (ES1405)
bull Uncovering the Mediterranean salt giant (CA15103)bull Advancing marine conservation in the European
and contiguous seas (CA15121)bull Ocean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges
Options and the Role of Science (CA15217)bull A pan-European Network for Marine Renewable
Energy (CA17105)bull Evaluation of Ocean Syntheses (ES1402)bull Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers
and Ephemeral Streams (CA15113)bull Accelerating Global science In Tsunami HAzard and
Risk analysis (CA18109)bull Advancing knowledge on seaweed growth and
development (FA1406)bull Stem cells of marineaquatic invertebrates from
basic research to innovative applications (CA16203)bull Oceans Past Platform (IS1403)
European COST Action ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo Newsletter 11 July 2019
Highlights
Content
Photo by COST Association June 2019
Highlights 1Publications 2ConferencesWorkshops 3LecturesPresentationsPanels 4
New ProjectsFieldwork 5Jobs amp Opportunities 6Additional Information of Interest 7
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 2
In a short presentation Anna-Katharina Hornidge gave an overview on the conception instruments and outreach of our COST action She focused on the networkslsquo latest endeavors which contain the ongoing publication of peer reviewed articles the forthcom-ing edited volume by Hornidge and Hadjimichael in the MARE publication series (find the call in the Jobs amp Opportunities section) and the progress of the virtual lecture sbquoOcean Governance for Sustainabilitylsquo Subse-quently she discussed her personal contribution to OceanGov that revolves around the three thematic areas Oceanic Futures amp Foresight Studies Coastal Transfor-
Publications
Bansard JS Hickmann T amp Kern K (2019) Pathways to urban sustainability How science can contribute to sustainable development in cities In GAIA ndash Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 28(2) 112-118 DOI 1014512gaia2829
Chavez Carrillo II Partelow S Madrigal-Ballestero R Schluumlter A amp Gutierrez-Montes I (2019) Do responsible fishing areas work Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica In International Journal of the Commons 13 DOI 1018352ijc923
Dannevig H Groven K Hovelsrud GK Lundberg AK Bellerby RG Wallhead P amp Labriola M (2019) A framework for agenda-setting ocean acidification through boundary work In Environmental Science amp Policy 95 28-37 DOI 101016jenvsci201902001
Gehrig S Schluumlter A amp Hammerstein P (2019) Sociocultural heterogeneity in a common pool resource dilemma In PLOS ONE 14 e0210561 DOI 101371journalpone0210561
Neilson AL amp Satildeo Marcos R (2019) Relational On-tologies and Hybridity Fishing for Empathy between Azorean Fishers and Scientists In Marine Policy 105 30-37 DOI 101016jmarpol201904004
Partelow S Abson D Schluumlter A Fernaacutendez-Gimeacuten-ez M von Wehrden H amp Collier N (2019) Privatizing the commons New approaches need broader evalua-tive criteria for sustainability In International Journal of the Commons 13 DOI 1018352ijc938
Partelow S Fujitani M Soundararajan V amp Schluumlter A (2019) Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and delibera-tion tool for comanagement In Ecology and Society 24 DOI 105751ES-10724-240115
Peters K amp Brown M (2019) Living with the Sea Knowledge Awareness and Action London Routledge ISBN 9781315161839
Portman ME Pasternak G Yotam Y Nussbaum R amp Behar D (2019) Beachgoer Participation in Prevention of Marine Litter Using design for behavior change In Marine Pollution Bulletin 144 1-10 DOI 101016jmarpolbul201904071
Schluumlter A Partelow S Torres Guevara LE amp Jennerjahn TC (2019) Coastal Commons as social- ecological systems In Hudson B Rosenbloom J Cole D [Eds] Handbook of the Commons London Routledge DOI 1043249781315162782
Schluumlter A Vance C amp Ferse S (2019) Coral reefs and the slow emergence of institutional structures for a glocal land- and sea-based collective dilemma In Marine Policy 103505 (forthcoming) DOI 101016jmarpol201904009
Shabtay A Portman ME Manea E amp Gissi E (2019) Promoting ancillary conservation through marine spatial planning In Science of The Total Environment 651 1753-1763 DOI 101016jscitotenv201810074
Singh GG Hilmi N Bernhardt JR Cisneros Monte-mayor AM Cashion M Ota Y Acar S Brown J M Cottrell R Djoundourian S Gonzaacutelez-Espinosa PC Lam V Marshall N Neumann B Pascal N Rey-gondeau G Rockloumlv J Safa A Virto LR amp Cheung W (2019) Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target travelling away from us In People and Nature (online first June 12 2019) DOI 101002pan326
Singh P amp Hunter J (2019) Protection of the Marine Environment The International and National Regu-lation of Deep Seabed Mining Activities In Sharma R [Eds] Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining Impacts Consequences and Policy Perspectives Cham Springer ISBN 9783030126957
mation Studies and Marine Science amp Technology Stud-ies The two-day workshop highlighted scientific success stories of ongoing and previous COST actions enhanced the mutual understanding between researchers policy makers and funders and created new synergies and collaborations among the participants Further-more this event fed into the ongoing discussions on the Horizon2020 successor Horizon Europe where the future of oceans is named as one of the key missions
For a short report on the workshop please refer to the COST website
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 3
OceanGov Joint Peer Reviewed Publications
Unger S amp Neumann B (2019) Facilitating voluntary ocean commitments Response In Science 364(6440) 540-540 DOI 101126scienceaax3493
Viana IG Siriwardane-de Zoysa R Willette DA amp Gillis LG (2019) Exploring how non-native seagrass species could provide essential ecosystems services a perspective on the highly invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea in the Caribbean Sea In Biological Invasions 21(5) 1461-1472 DOI 101007s10530-019-01924-y
Expert Meeting on the feasibility of applying a rule-based management approach to the
Regional Environmental Management Planning of the ISA with a focus on Polymetallic Sulphide deposits on mid-ocean ridges
Date May 29 ndash 30 2019Location Paris France
Postcolonial Oceans Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water
Date May 30 ndash June 2 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpspostcolonialoceansblogspotcomp
welcomehtml
UBAIASS Fachgespraumlch ldquoRahmenbedingungen fuumlr einen erfolgreichen Versuchsbergbau -
Anforderungen an den Mining Code der Internationalen Meeresbodenbehoumlrderdquo
Date June 2 2019Location Potsdam Germany
2nd HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity
Date June 3 ndash 5 2019Location Potsdam GermanyLink httpshifmbdeenevents2nd-symposium
Narratives and practices of environmental justice
Date June 6 ndash 8 2019Location Kiel GermanyLink httpswwwmarinesocialscienceuni-kieldede
enjust-workshop
STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop II - Africa - Science for solutions
bringing stakeholders together to improve ocean planning and governance
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Cape Town South AfricaLink httpswwwprog-oceanorgeventsstrong-high-
seas-dialogue-workshop-ii-africa-science-for-solu-tions-bringing-stakeholders-together-to-improve-ocean-planning-and-governance
Who cares about ocean acidification in the Plasticene
Authors Rachel Tiller (WG5) Francisco Arenas (WG5) Charles Galdies (WG2) Francisco Leitatildeo (WG5) Alenka Malej (WG5) Beatriz Martinez Romera (WG5) Cosimo Solidoro (WG5) Robert Stojanov (WG1) Valentina Turk (WG1) Roberta Guerra (WG5)
In Ocean amp Coastal Management 174 Pages 170-180
DOI 101016jocecoaman201903020
Governance and the coastal condition Towards new modes of observation adaptation and integration
Authors Kristof Van Assche (WG2) Anna-Katharina Hornidge (WG3) Achim Schluumlter (WG1) Natașa Vaidianu (WG1)
In Marine Policy access online
DOI httpsdoiorg101016jmarpol201901002
More information on the joint peer reviewed publications by the network members on the OceanGov website
Conferences WorkshopsPast (May ndash July 2019)
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 4
ldquoPlastic Pollution and the Fishing Community of Setuacutebal ethnography as clarification of a misconceptionrdquo Presentation at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association 2019 Lisbon Portugal June 4 ndash 7 2019 By Joana Saacute Couto
ldquoA Blue Economy Approach Towards Clean and Sustaina-ble Seasrdquo Presentation at the Sixth International Confer-ence with Youth Scientific Session Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection (EEEPrsquo2019) Burgas Bulgaria June 5 ndash 7 2019 By Nicholas Kathijotes
ldquoSupporting ecosystem-based marine planning through geospatial decision support tools concepts methods and case studiesrdquo Lecture at the Blue Growth Summer School - Sustainable Blue Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region 2019Trieste amp Piran ItalySlovenia June 17 ndash 21 By Daniel Depellegrin
ldquoTowards a common framework for marginal seas socio-ecological research a case study from Norwegian coastal systemsrdquo Presentation at the The Future Oceans 2 IMBeR Open Science Conference Brest France June 18 2019 By Richard Bellerby
ldquoDefining the State of the Seardquo Paper delivered at Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics in the UK and Japan Kyoto Japan June 19 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Imagining sustainable futures for marine environments - workshop at
the 14th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Lulearing SwedenLink httpswwwtramerendk
Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics
in the UK and Japan
Date June 17 ndash 20 2019Location Kyoto Japan
MARE 2019 ndash People amp the Sea X learning from the past
imagining the future
Date June 24 ndash 28 2019Location Amsterdam The NetherlandsLink httpwwwmarecentrenl2019-people-
the-sea-conference
The Sixth International Conference with Youth Scientific Session Ecological
Engineering and Environment Protection
Date June 5 ndash 7 2019Location Burgas BulgariaLink httpswwwmelissafoundationorgnews
consult2
New Area Studies Colloquium 2019 Theory and Method Blurring Genres
Date July 10 ndash 11 2019Location Norwich England
Spatial Strategies at the Land-Sea Interface Rethinking Maritime Spatial Planning
Date September 11 ndash 13 2019Location Hamburg GermanyLink httpwwwaesop-planningeublogs
postsen_GBtransnational-and-cross-bor der-planning20190318readaboutspa tial-strategies-at-the-land-sea-interface-re-thinking-maritime-spatial-planning-call-for-paper-is-open
PhD workshop Interdisciplinary Marine Social Science
Date September 17 ndash 18 2019Location Lancaster EnglandLink httpswwwoceangoveunews_full
phd-workshop-interdisciplinary-marine- social-science
International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE)
Date September 24 ndash 27 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpswwwicymarecom
LecturesPresentationsPanels
Past
Current and Upcoming
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 5
Current and Upcoming ldquoOceanic Spaces and the Future of Area Studiesrdquo Keynote at the workshop lsquoNew Area Studies Theory and Method Blurring Genresrsquo Norwich United Kingdom July 11 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine Social Sciences and Humanities for Sustainabilityrdquo Invited talk at VW-Herrenhausen Symposium Position-ing the Humanities in the 2020s Hannover Germany September 10 ndash 12 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoWe are all ocean geographers nowrdquo Presentation at the Deutscher Kongress fuumlr Geographie Kiel Germany September 28 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Oceanrsquos University ndash Marine sciences for and with young people
Project Coordination Zara Teixeira University of Coimbra
OceanGov member Alison NeilsonExpected starting date October 2019
Oceanrsquos University is a project coordinated by the Uni-versity of Coimbra The project aims to develop an innovative and structured model to bring young people closer to researchers and economic activities in the the-matic area of marine sciences and technologies based on the general principles of Childrenrsquos Universities The project expected to start in October 2019 comprises three main work packages WP1-Young People training WP2-Teachersrsquo training and WP3-Researchersrsquo training The main goals of WP1 are to motivate young people to embark on careers linked to marine research foster youth entrepreneurship for the Blue Economy and promote the increase of Ocean Literacy The main goal of WP2 is to create opportunities for new approaches in teaching practices through the training of teachers to integrate the concepts of Ocean Literacy and entrepreneurship in educational practices The main goal of WP3 is to build a dialogue between young people and RampD Units with relevance in the area of Marine Sciences and Technol-ogies through the training of researchers for effective knowledge transfer and science dissemination
West Indian Ocean Governance amp Exchange Network (WIOGEN)
Project Coordination International Ocean Institute South Africa amp Germany
OceanGov members Anna-Katharina Hornidge Achim Schluumlter Bianca Hurlemann Rapti Siriwar-dane-de Zoysa
Expected starting date June 1 2019 ndash June 30 2021
A new network on regional ocean governance connect-ing the partner countries Kenya Madagascar Seychelles Mozambique South Africa Tanzania was launched in June
WIOGEN is a scientific networking platform funded by the ldquoMeerWissen Initiativerdquo (Federal Ministry for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Development BMZ) with an integrative vision of social learning approaches that fosters regional ocean governance in the West Indian Ocean Region The network comprises a transdisciplinary science network of academic policy-related private and civil society partner institutions over a preliminary phase of two years It complements other regional marine science networks by focusing explicitly on integrative
New Projects Fieldwork
ldquoFisheries and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative Insights from Southeast Asia and West Africardquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge amp Henryk Alff
ldquoMarine Science Cultures Societal Contestations and Transnational Entanglements of European Marine Sciencesrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoFraming Perceiving and Dreaming the Oceanrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learn-ing from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoScience Policy for a Human-Ocean Relationshipsrdquo Plenary event at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoOn lsquoEpistemic (In-)equalitiesrsquo and the Marine Sciencesrdquo Talk at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine governancerdquo Presentation at the Second Interna-tional Science and Policy Conference on Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic Integrating information at different scales in the frame-work of EA implementation Bergen Norway June 25 ndash 27 2019 By Wenting Chen
ldquoUnderstanding sustainable behavioral patterns and perception of cruise tourism impacts based on cruise motivation as clustering criteriardquo Presentation at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 26 2019 By Darko Dimitrovski
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 6
Jobs amp Opportunities
ocean and coastal governance thus bringing together the social and marine sciences WIOGEN strongly focuses on the capacity development of early career ocean gov-ernance researchers policymakers tertiary educators and development practitioners
The platform is structured around three selected ocean governance themes
bull Nutritional security sustainable fisheries aquacul-ture and livelihoods
bull Marine spatial planning and coastal managementbull Biodiversity conservation pollution and habitat loss
For further information please refer to the announcement of the project launch at the website of the Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IASS Fellow Programme Call for Applications for 2020
Deadline July 14 2019
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS) is an international inter- and transdisciplinary research institute located in Potsdam It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal State of Brandenburg The main purpose of the institute is to conduct scientific research on global sustainability particularly in the following six areas
bull Perception values orientationbull Democratic transformationsbull Governance for the environment and societybull Systemic interdependencies technology nature societybull Energy systems and societal changebull Forums science policy and society
Link httpsfellowsiass-potsdamdeapplication
15th IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean
Black Baltic amp Caspian Seas
Deadline September 6 2019
This training programme builds upon the more than 35 years of experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity build-ing programmes on ocean governance The ocean governance content covers contemporary approach-es to coastal and ocean management with an emphasis on moral ethical and legal values in ocean governance (equity and peaceful uses of the ocean) under the governance architecture of UNCLOS and related international instruments and agreements
Link httpoceaniaresearchumedumtcmsioicourse
Call for Papers Edited Volume ldquoOcean Governance
Pasts Presents Futuresrdquo
Deadline August 5 2019
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) and Maria Hadjimichael (Vice Chair) invite contributions to a forth-coming volume in the MARE Publication Series
The aim of the proposed book is to provide an internationally visible compendium of salient discussions about the past and present con-tradictions and future outlooks of and on the governance of our oceans Particular empha-sis will be placed on the different narratives logics and rationales involved in constructing oceanic pasts the shaping of its present and the imagi-naries of future ocean governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines has arrived in the centre of European and global strategic and sustainability interests exposing and addressing the high degree of policy fragmentation and the lack of cross-scalar approaches to tackle existing chal-lenges This book aims to contribute to these ongoing debates in academia and policy-making by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and beyond relating to ocean governance in the thematic fields of
bull Land-Sea Interaction
bull Area-Based Management
bull Seabed Resource Management
bull Nutrition Security and Food Systems
bull Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
bull Fisheries Governance
Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 5th 2019 The editors will then ndash based on the received abstracts ndash develop the structure of the textbook further and invite full texts of maximum 9000 words each to be submitted November 30th 2019 At the current moment the book is planned to be pub-lished with Mare Series of Springer (to be confirmed with series editors once the volume structure is put together)
Please refer to the full announcement
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 2
In a short presentation Anna-Katharina Hornidge gave an overview on the conception instruments and outreach of our COST action She focused on the networkslsquo latest endeavors which contain the ongoing publication of peer reviewed articles the forthcom-ing edited volume by Hornidge and Hadjimichael in the MARE publication series (find the call in the Jobs amp Opportunities section) and the progress of the virtual lecture sbquoOcean Governance for Sustainabilitylsquo Subse-quently she discussed her personal contribution to OceanGov that revolves around the three thematic areas Oceanic Futures amp Foresight Studies Coastal Transfor-
Publications
Bansard JS Hickmann T amp Kern K (2019) Pathways to urban sustainability How science can contribute to sustainable development in cities In GAIA ndash Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 28(2) 112-118 DOI 1014512gaia2829
Chavez Carrillo II Partelow S Madrigal-Ballestero R Schluumlter A amp Gutierrez-Montes I (2019) Do responsible fishing areas work Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica In International Journal of the Commons 13 DOI 1018352ijc923
Dannevig H Groven K Hovelsrud GK Lundberg AK Bellerby RG Wallhead P amp Labriola M (2019) A framework for agenda-setting ocean acidification through boundary work In Environmental Science amp Policy 95 28-37 DOI 101016jenvsci201902001
Gehrig S Schluumlter A amp Hammerstein P (2019) Sociocultural heterogeneity in a common pool resource dilemma In PLOS ONE 14 e0210561 DOI 101371journalpone0210561
Neilson AL amp Satildeo Marcos R (2019) Relational On-tologies and Hybridity Fishing for Empathy between Azorean Fishers and Scientists In Marine Policy 105 30-37 DOI 101016jmarpol201904004
Partelow S Abson D Schluumlter A Fernaacutendez-Gimeacuten-ez M von Wehrden H amp Collier N (2019) Privatizing the commons New approaches need broader evalua-tive criteria for sustainability In International Journal of the Commons 13 DOI 1018352ijc938
Partelow S Fujitani M Soundararajan V amp Schluumlter A (2019) Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and delibera-tion tool for comanagement In Ecology and Society 24 DOI 105751ES-10724-240115
Peters K amp Brown M (2019) Living with the Sea Knowledge Awareness and Action London Routledge ISBN 9781315161839
Portman ME Pasternak G Yotam Y Nussbaum R amp Behar D (2019) Beachgoer Participation in Prevention of Marine Litter Using design for behavior change In Marine Pollution Bulletin 144 1-10 DOI 101016jmarpolbul201904071
Schluumlter A Partelow S Torres Guevara LE amp Jennerjahn TC (2019) Coastal Commons as social- ecological systems In Hudson B Rosenbloom J Cole D [Eds] Handbook of the Commons London Routledge DOI 1043249781315162782
Schluumlter A Vance C amp Ferse S (2019) Coral reefs and the slow emergence of institutional structures for a glocal land- and sea-based collective dilemma In Marine Policy 103505 (forthcoming) DOI 101016jmarpol201904009
Shabtay A Portman ME Manea E amp Gissi E (2019) Promoting ancillary conservation through marine spatial planning In Science of The Total Environment 651 1753-1763 DOI 101016jscitotenv201810074
Singh GG Hilmi N Bernhardt JR Cisneros Monte-mayor AM Cashion M Ota Y Acar S Brown J M Cottrell R Djoundourian S Gonzaacutelez-Espinosa PC Lam V Marshall N Neumann B Pascal N Rey-gondeau G Rockloumlv J Safa A Virto LR amp Cheung W (2019) Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target travelling away from us In People and Nature (online first June 12 2019) DOI 101002pan326
Singh P amp Hunter J (2019) Protection of the Marine Environment The International and National Regu-lation of Deep Seabed Mining Activities In Sharma R [Eds] Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining Impacts Consequences and Policy Perspectives Cham Springer ISBN 9783030126957
mation Studies and Marine Science amp Technology Stud-ies The two-day workshop highlighted scientific success stories of ongoing and previous COST actions enhanced the mutual understanding between researchers policy makers and funders and created new synergies and collaborations among the participants Further-more this event fed into the ongoing discussions on the Horizon2020 successor Horizon Europe where the future of oceans is named as one of the key missions
For a short report on the workshop please refer to the COST website
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 3
OceanGov Joint Peer Reviewed Publications
Unger S amp Neumann B (2019) Facilitating voluntary ocean commitments Response In Science 364(6440) 540-540 DOI 101126scienceaax3493
Viana IG Siriwardane-de Zoysa R Willette DA amp Gillis LG (2019) Exploring how non-native seagrass species could provide essential ecosystems services a perspective on the highly invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea in the Caribbean Sea In Biological Invasions 21(5) 1461-1472 DOI 101007s10530-019-01924-y
Expert Meeting on the feasibility of applying a rule-based management approach to the
Regional Environmental Management Planning of the ISA with a focus on Polymetallic Sulphide deposits on mid-ocean ridges
Date May 29 ndash 30 2019Location Paris France
Postcolonial Oceans Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water
Date May 30 ndash June 2 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpspostcolonialoceansblogspotcomp
welcomehtml
UBAIASS Fachgespraumlch ldquoRahmenbedingungen fuumlr einen erfolgreichen Versuchsbergbau -
Anforderungen an den Mining Code der Internationalen Meeresbodenbehoumlrderdquo
Date June 2 2019Location Potsdam Germany
2nd HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity
Date June 3 ndash 5 2019Location Potsdam GermanyLink httpshifmbdeenevents2nd-symposium
Narratives and practices of environmental justice
Date June 6 ndash 8 2019Location Kiel GermanyLink httpswwwmarinesocialscienceuni-kieldede
enjust-workshop
STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop II - Africa - Science for solutions
bringing stakeholders together to improve ocean planning and governance
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Cape Town South AfricaLink httpswwwprog-oceanorgeventsstrong-high-
seas-dialogue-workshop-ii-africa-science-for-solu-tions-bringing-stakeholders-together-to-improve-ocean-planning-and-governance
Who cares about ocean acidification in the Plasticene
Authors Rachel Tiller (WG5) Francisco Arenas (WG5) Charles Galdies (WG2) Francisco Leitatildeo (WG5) Alenka Malej (WG5) Beatriz Martinez Romera (WG5) Cosimo Solidoro (WG5) Robert Stojanov (WG1) Valentina Turk (WG1) Roberta Guerra (WG5)
In Ocean amp Coastal Management 174 Pages 170-180
DOI 101016jocecoaman201903020
Governance and the coastal condition Towards new modes of observation adaptation and integration
Authors Kristof Van Assche (WG2) Anna-Katharina Hornidge (WG3) Achim Schluumlter (WG1) Natașa Vaidianu (WG1)
In Marine Policy access online
DOI httpsdoiorg101016jmarpol201901002
More information on the joint peer reviewed publications by the network members on the OceanGov website
Conferences WorkshopsPast (May ndash July 2019)
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 4
ldquoPlastic Pollution and the Fishing Community of Setuacutebal ethnography as clarification of a misconceptionrdquo Presentation at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association 2019 Lisbon Portugal June 4 ndash 7 2019 By Joana Saacute Couto
ldquoA Blue Economy Approach Towards Clean and Sustaina-ble Seasrdquo Presentation at the Sixth International Confer-ence with Youth Scientific Session Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection (EEEPrsquo2019) Burgas Bulgaria June 5 ndash 7 2019 By Nicholas Kathijotes
ldquoSupporting ecosystem-based marine planning through geospatial decision support tools concepts methods and case studiesrdquo Lecture at the Blue Growth Summer School - Sustainable Blue Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region 2019Trieste amp Piran ItalySlovenia June 17 ndash 21 By Daniel Depellegrin
ldquoTowards a common framework for marginal seas socio-ecological research a case study from Norwegian coastal systemsrdquo Presentation at the The Future Oceans 2 IMBeR Open Science Conference Brest France June 18 2019 By Richard Bellerby
ldquoDefining the State of the Seardquo Paper delivered at Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics in the UK and Japan Kyoto Japan June 19 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Imagining sustainable futures for marine environments - workshop at
the 14th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Lulearing SwedenLink httpswwwtramerendk
Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics
in the UK and Japan
Date June 17 ndash 20 2019Location Kyoto Japan
MARE 2019 ndash People amp the Sea X learning from the past
imagining the future
Date June 24 ndash 28 2019Location Amsterdam The NetherlandsLink httpwwwmarecentrenl2019-people-
the-sea-conference
The Sixth International Conference with Youth Scientific Session Ecological
Engineering and Environment Protection
Date June 5 ndash 7 2019Location Burgas BulgariaLink httpswwwmelissafoundationorgnews
consult2
New Area Studies Colloquium 2019 Theory and Method Blurring Genres
Date July 10 ndash 11 2019Location Norwich England
Spatial Strategies at the Land-Sea Interface Rethinking Maritime Spatial Planning
Date September 11 ndash 13 2019Location Hamburg GermanyLink httpwwwaesop-planningeublogs
postsen_GBtransnational-and-cross-bor der-planning20190318readaboutspa tial-strategies-at-the-land-sea-interface-re-thinking-maritime-spatial-planning-call-for-paper-is-open
PhD workshop Interdisciplinary Marine Social Science
Date September 17 ndash 18 2019Location Lancaster EnglandLink httpswwwoceangoveunews_full
phd-workshop-interdisciplinary-marine- social-science
International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE)
Date September 24 ndash 27 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpswwwicymarecom
LecturesPresentationsPanels
Past
Current and Upcoming
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 5
Current and Upcoming ldquoOceanic Spaces and the Future of Area Studiesrdquo Keynote at the workshop lsquoNew Area Studies Theory and Method Blurring Genresrsquo Norwich United Kingdom July 11 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine Social Sciences and Humanities for Sustainabilityrdquo Invited talk at VW-Herrenhausen Symposium Position-ing the Humanities in the 2020s Hannover Germany September 10 ndash 12 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoWe are all ocean geographers nowrdquo Presentation at the Deutscher Kongress fuumlr Geographie Kiel Germany September 28 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Oceanrsquos University ndash Marine sciences for and with young people
Project Coordination Zara Teixeira University of Coimbra
OceanGov member Alison NeilsonExpected starting date October 2019
Oceanrsquos University is a project coordinated by the Uni-versity of Coimbra The project aims to develop an innovative and structured model to bring young people closer to researchers and economic activities in the the-matic area of marine sciences and technologies based on the general principles of Childrenrsquos Universities The project expected to start in October 2019 comprises three main work packages WP1-Young People training WP2-Teachersrsquo training and WP3-Researchersrsquo training The main goals of WP1 are to motivate young people to embark on careers linked to marine research foster youth entrepreneurship for the Blue Economy and promote the increase of Ocean Literacy The main goal of WP2 is to create opportunities for new approaches in teaching practices through the training of teachers to integrate the concepts of Ocean Literacy and entrepreneurship in educational practices The main goal of WP3 is to build a dialogue between young people and RampD Units with relevance in the area of Marine Sciences and Technol-ogies through the training of researchers for effective knowledge transfer and science dissemination
West Indian Ocean Governance amp Exchange Network (WIOGEN)
Project Coordination International Ocean Institute South Africa amp Germany
OceanGov members Anna-Katharina Hornidge Achim Schluumlter Bianca Hurlemann Rapti Siriwar-dane-de Zoysa
Expected starting date June 1 2019 ndash June 30 2021
A new network on regional ocean governance connect-ing the partner countries Kenya Madagascar Seychelles Mozambique South Africa Tanzania was launched in June
WIOGEN is a scientific networking platform funded by the ldquoMeerWissen Initiativerdquo (Federal Ministry for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Development BMZ) with an integrative vision of social learning approaches that fosters regional ocean governance in the West Indian Ocean Region The network comprises a transdisciplinary science network of academic policy-related private and civil society partner institutions over a preliminary phase of two years It complements other regional marine science networks by focusing explicitly on integrative
New Projects Fieldwork
ldquoFisheries and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative Insights from Southeast Asia and West Africardquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge amp Henryk Alff
ldquoMarine Science Cultures Societal Contestations and Transnational Entanglements of European Marine Sciencesrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoFraming Perceiving and Dreaming the Oceanrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learn-ing from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoScience Policy for a Human-Ocean Relationshipsrdquo Plenary event at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoOn lsquoEpistemic (In-)equalitiesrsquo and the Marine Sciencesrdquo Talk at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine governancerdquo Presentation at the Second Interna-tional Science and Policy Conference on Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic Integrating information at different scales in the frame-work of EA implementation Bergen Norway June 25 ndash 27 2019 By Wenting Chen
ldquoUnderstanding sustainable behavioral patterns and perception of cruise tourism impacts based on cruise motivation as clustering criteriardquo Presentation at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 26 2019 By Darko Dimitrovski
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 6
Jobs amp Opportunities
ocean and coastal governance thus bringing together the social and marine sciences WIOGEN strongly focuses on the capacity development of early career ocean gov-ernance researchers policymakers tertiary educators and development practitioners
The platform is structured around three selected ocean governance themes
bull Nutritional security sustainable fisheries aquacul-ture and livelihoods
bull Marine spatial planning and coastal managementbull Biodiversity conservation pollution and habitat loss
For further information please refer to the announcement of the project launch at the website of the Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IASS Fellow Programme Call for Applications for 2020
Deadline July 14 2019
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS) is an international inter- and transdisciplinary research institute located in Potsdam It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal State of Brandenburg The main purpose of the institute is to conduct scientific research on global sustainability particularly in the following six areas
bull Perception values orientationbull Democratic transformationsbull Governance for the environment and societybull Systemic interdependencies technology nature societybull Energy systems and societal changebull Forums science policy and society
Link httpsfellowsiass-potsdamdeapplication
15th IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean
Black Baltic amp Caspian Seas
Deadline September 6 2019
This training programme builds upon the more than 35 years of experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity build-ing programmes on ocean governance The ocean governance content covers contemporary approach-es to coastal and ocean management with an emphasis on moral ethical and legal values in ocean governance (equity and peaceful uses of the ocean) under the governance architecture of UNCLOS and related international instruments and agreements
Link httpoceaniaresearchumedumtcmsioicourse
Call for Papers Edited Volume ldquoOcean Governance
Pasts Presents Futuresrdquo
Deadline August 5 2019
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) and Maria Hadjimichael (Vice Chair) invite contributions to a forth-coming volume in the MARE Publication Series
The aim of the proposed book is to provide an internationally visible compendium of salient discussions about the past and present con-tradictions and future outlooks of and on the governance of our oceans Particular empha-sis will be placed on the different narratives logics and rationales involved in constructing oceanic pasts the shaping of its present and the imagi-naries of future ocean governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines has arrived in the centre of European and global strategic and sustainability interests exposing and addressing the high degree of policy fragmentation and the lack of cross-scalar approaches to tackle existing chal-lenges This book aims to contribute to these ongoing debates in academia and policy-making by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and beyond relating to ocean governance in the thematic fields of
bull Land-Sea Interaction
bull Area-Based Management
bull Seabed Resource Management
bull Nutrition Security and Food Systems
bull Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
bull Fisheries Governance
Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 5th 2019 The editors will then ndash based on the received abstracts ndash develop the structure of the textbook further and invite full texts of maximum 9000 words each to be submitted November 30th 2019 At the current moment the book is planned to be pub-lished with Mare Series of Springer (to be confirmed with series editors once the volume structure is put together)
Please refer to the full announcement
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 3
OceanGov Joint Peer Reviewed Publications
Unger S amp Neumann B (2019) Facilitating voluntary ocean commitments Response In Science 364(6440) 540-540 DOI 101126scienceaax3493
Viana IG Siriwardane-de Zoysa R Willette DA amp Gillis LG (2019) Exploring how non-native seagrass species could provide essential ecosystems services a perspective on the highly invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea in the Caribbean Sea In Biological Invasions 21(5) 1461-1472 DOI 101007s10530-019-01924-y
Expert Meeting on the feasibility of applying a rule-based management approach to the
Regional Environmental Management Planning of the ISA with a focus on Polymetallic Sulphide deposits on mid-ocean ridges
Date May 29 ndash 30 2019Location Paris France
Postcolonial Oceans Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water
Date May 30 ndash June 2 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpspostcolonialoceansblogspotcomp
welcomehtml
UBAIASS Fachgespraumlch ldquoRahmenbedingungen fuumlr einen erfolgreichen Versuchsbergbau -
Anforderungen an den Mining Code der Internationalen Meeresbodenbehoumlrderdquo
Date June 2 2019Location Potsdam Germany
2nd HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity
Date June 3 ndash 5 2019Location Potsdam GermanyLink httpshifmbdeenevents2nd-symposium
Narratives and practices of environmental justice
Date June 6 ndash 8 2019Location Kiel GermanyLink httpswwwmarinesocialscienceuni-kieldede
enjust-workshop
STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop II - Africa - Science for solutions
bringing stakeholders together to improve ocean planning and governance
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Cape Town South AfricaLink httpswwwprog-oceanorgeventsstrong-high-
seas-dialogue-workshop-ii-africa-science-for-solu-tions-bringing-stakeholders-together-to-improve-ocean-planning-and-governance
Who cares about ocean acidification in the Plasticene
Authors Rachel Tiller (WG5) Francisco Arenas (WG5) Charles Galdies (WG2) Francisco Leitatildeo (WG5) Alenka Malej (WG5) Beatriz Martinez Romera (WG5) Cosimo Solidoro (WG5) Robert Stojanov (WG1) Valentina Turk (WG1) Roberta Guerra (WG5)
In Ocean amp Coastal Management 174 Pages 170-180
DOI 101016jocecoaman201903020
Governance and the coastal condition Towards new modes of observation adaptation and integration
Authors Kristof Van Assche (WG2) Anna-Katharina Hornidge (WG3) Achim Schluumlter (WG1) Natașa Vaidianu (WG1)
In Marine Policy access online
DOI httpsdoiorg101016jmarpol201901002
More information on the joint peer reviewed publications by the network members on the OceanGov website
Conferences WorkshopsPast (May ndash July 2019)
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 4
ldquoPlastic Pollution and the Fishing Community of Setuacutebal ethnography as clarification of a misconceptionrdquo Presentation at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association 2019 Lisbon Portugal June 4 ndash 7 2019 By Joana Saacute Couto
ldquoA Blue Economy Approach Towards Clean and Sustaina-ble Seasrdquo Presentation at the Sixth International Confer-ence with Youth Scientific Session Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection (EEEPrsquo2019) Burgas Bulgaria June 5 ndash 7 2019 By Nicholas Kathijotes
ldquoSupporting ecosystem-based marine planning through geospatial decision support tools concepts methods and case studiesrdquo Lecture at the Blue Growth Summer School - Sustainable Blue Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region 2019Trieste amp Piran ItalySlovenia June 17 ndash 21 By Daniel Depellegrin
ldquoTowards a common framework for marginal seas socio-ecological research a case study from Norwegian coastal systemsrdquo Presentation at the The Future Oceans 2 IMBeR Open Science Conference Brest France June 18 2019 By Richard Bellerby
ldquoDefining the State of the Seardquo Paper delivered at Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics in the UK and Japan Kyoto Japan June 19 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Imagining sustainable futures for marine environments - workshop at
the 14th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Lulearing SwedenLink httpswwwtramerendk
Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics
in the UK and Japan
Date June 17 ndash 20 2019Location Kyoto Japan
MARE 2019 ndash People amp the Sea X learning from the past
imagining the future
Date June 24 ndash 28 2019Location Amsterdam The NetherlandsLink httpwwwmarecentrenl2019-people-
the-sea-conference
The Sixth International Conference with Youth Scientific Session Ecological
Engineering and Environment Protection
Date June 5 ndash 7 2019Location Burgas BulgariaLink httpswwwmelissafoundationorgnews
consult2
New Area Studies Colloquium 2019 Theory and Method Blurring Genres
Date July 10 ndash 11 2019Location Norwich England
Spatial Strategies at the Land-Sea Interface Rethinking Maritime Spatial Planning
Date September 11 ndash 13 2019Location Hamburg GermanyLink httpwwwaesop-planningeublogs
postsen_GBtransnational-and-cross-bor der-planning20190318readaboutspa tial-strategies-at-the-land-sea-interface-re-thinking-maritime-spatial-planning-call-for-paper-is-open
PhD workshop Interdisciplinary Marine Social Science
Date September 17 ndash 18 2019Location Lancaster EnglandLink httpswwwoceangoveunews_full
phd-workshop-interdisciplinary-marine- social-science
International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE)
Date September 24 ndash 27 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpswwwicymarecom
LecturesPresentationsPanels
Past
Current and Upcoming
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 5
Current and Upcoming ldquoOceanic Spaces and the Future of Area Studiesrdquo Keynote at the workshop lsquoNew Area Studies Theory and Method Blurring Genresrsquo Norwich United Kingdom July 11 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine Social Sciences and Humanities for Sustainabilityrdquo Invited talk at VW-Herrenhausen Symposium Position-ing the Humanities in the 2020s Hannover Germany September 10 ndash 12 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoWe are all ocean geographers nowrdquo Presentation at the Deutscher Kongress fuumlr Geographie Kiel Germany September 28 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Oceanrsquos University ndash Marine sciences for and with young people
Project Coordination Zara Teixeira University of Coimbra
OceanGov member Alison NeilsonExpected starting date October 2019
Oceanrsquos University is a project coordinated by the Uni-versity of Coimbra The project aims to develop an innovative and structured model to bring young people closer to researchers and economic activities in the the-matic area of marine sciences and technologies based on the general principles of Childrenrsquos Universities The project expected to start in October 2019 comprises three main work packages WP1-Young People training WP2-Teachersrsquo training and WP3-Researchersrsquo training The main goals of WP1 are to motivate young people to embark on careers linked to marine research foster youth entrepreneurship for the Blue Economy and promote the increase of Ocean Literacy The main goal of WP2 is to create opportunities for new approaches in teaching practices through the training of teachers to integrate the concepts of Ocean Literacy and entrepreneurship in educational practices The main goal of WP3 is to build a dialogue between young people and RampD Units with relevance in the area of Marine Sciences and Technol-ogies through the training of researchers for effective knowledge transfer and science dissemination
West Indian Ocean Governance amp Exchange Network (WIOGEN)
Project Coordination International Ocean Institute South Africa amp Germany
OceanGov members Anna-Katharina Hornidge Achim Schluumlter Bianca Hurlemann Rapti Siriwar-dane-de Zoysa
Expected starting date June 1 2019 ndash June 30 2021
A new network on regional ocean governance connect-ing the partner countries Kenya Madagascar Seychelles Mozambique South Africa Tanzania was launched in June
WIOGEN is a scientific networking platform funded by the ldquoMeerWissen Initiativerdquo (Federal Ministry for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Development BMZ) with an integrative vision of social learning approaches that fosters regional ocean governance in the West Indian Ocean Region The network comprises a transdisciplinary science network of academic policy-related private and civil society partner institutions over a preliminary phase of two years It complements other regional marine science networks by focusing explicitly on integrative
New Projects Fieldwork
ldquoFisheries and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative Insights from Southeast Asia and West Africardquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge amp Henryk Alff
ldquoMarine Science Cultures Societal Contestations and Transnational Entanglements of European Marine Sciencesrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoFraming Perceiving and Dreaming the Oceanrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learn-ing from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoScience Policy for a Human-Ocean Relationshipsrdquo Plenary event at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoOn lsquoEpistemic (In-)equalitiesrsquo and the Marine Sciencesrdquo Talk at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine governancerdquo Presentation at the Second Interna-tional Science and Policy Conference on Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic Integrating information at different scales in the frame-work of EA implementation Bergen Norway June 25 ndash 27 2019 By Wenting Chen
ldquoUnderstanding sustainable behavioral patterns and perception of cruise tourism impacts based on cruise motivation as clustering criteriardquo Presentation at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 26 2019 By Darko Dimitrovski
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 6
Jobs amp Opportunities
ocean and coastal governance thus bringing together the social and marine sciences WIOGEN strongly focuses on the capacity development of early career ocean gov-ernance researchers policymakers tertiary educators and development practitioners
The platform is structured around three selected ocean governance themes
bull Nutritional security sustainable fisheries aquacul-ture and livelihoods
bull Marine spatial planning and coastal managementbull Biodiversity conservation pollution and habitat loss
For further information please refer to the announcement of the project launch at the website of the Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IASS Fellow Programme Call for Applications for 2020
Deadline July 14 2019
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS) is an international inter- and transdisciplinary research institute located in Potsdam It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal State of Brandenburg The main purpose of the institute is to conduct scientific research on global sustainability particularly in the following six areas
bull Perception values orientationbull Democratic transformationsbull Governance for the environment and societybull Systemic interdependencies technology nature societybull Energy systems and societal changebull Forums science policy and society
Link httpsfellowsiass-potsdamdeapplication
15th IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean
Black Baltic amp Caspian Seas
Deadline September 6 2019
This training programme builds upon the more than 35 years of experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity build-ing programmes on ocean governance The ocean governance content covers contemporary approach-es to coastal and ocean management with an emphasis on moral ethical and legal values in ocean governance (equity and peaceful uses of the ocean) under the governance architecture of UNCLOS and related international instruments and agreements
Link httpoceaniaresearchumedumtcmsioicourse
Call for Papers Edited Volume ldquoOcean Governance
Pasts Presents Futuresrdquo
Deadline August 5 2019
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) and Maria Hadjimichael (Vice Chair) invite contributions to a forth-coming volume in the MARE Publication Series
The aim of the proposed book is to provide an internationally visible compendium of salient discussions about the past and present con-tradictions and future outlooks of and on the governance of our oceans Particular empha-sis will be placed on the different narratives logics and rationales involved in constructing oceanic pasts the shaping of its present and the imagi-naries of future ocean governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines has arrived in the centre of European and global strategic and sustainability interests exposing and addressing the high degree of policy fragmentation and the lack of cross-scalar approaches to tackle existing chal-lenges This book aims to contribute to these ongoing debates in academia and policy-making by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and beyond relating to ocean governance in the thematic fields of
bull Land-Sea Interaction
bull Area-Based Management
bull Seabed Resource Management
bull Nutrition Security and Food Systems
bull Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
bull Fisheries Governance
Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 5th 2019 The editors will then ndash based on the received abstracts ndash develop the structure of the textbook further and invite full texts of maximum 9000 words each to be submitted November 30th 2019 At the current moment the book is planned to be pub-lished with Mare Series of Springer (to be confirmed with series editors once the volume structure is put together)
Please refer to the full announcement
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 4
ldquoPlastic Pollution and the Fishing Community of Setuacutebal ethnography as clarification of a misconceptionrdquo Presentation at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association 2019 Lisbon Portugal June 4 ndash 7 2019 By Joana Saacute Couto
ldquoA Blue Economy Approach Towards Clean and Sustaina-ble Seasrdquo Presentation at the Sixth International Confer-ence with Youth Scientific Session Ecological Engineering and Environment Protection (EEEPrsquo2019) Burgas Bulgaria June 5 ndash 7 2019 By Nicholas Kathijotes
ldquoSupporting ecosystem-based marine planning through geospatial decision support tools concepts methods and case studiesrdquo Lecture at the Blue Growth Summer School - Sustainable Blue Economy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region 2019Trieste amp Piran ItalySlovenia June 17 ndash 21 By Daniel Depellegrin
ldquoTowards a common framework for marginal seas socio-ecological research a case study from Norwegian coastal systemsrdquo Presentation at the The Future Oceans 2 IMBeR Open Science Conference Brest France June 18 2019 By Richard Bellerby
ldquoDefining the State of the Seardquo Paper delivered at Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics in the UK and Japan Kyoto Japan June 19 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Imagining sustainable futures for marine environments - workshop at
the 14th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference
Date June 10 ndash 12 2019Location Lulearing SwedenLink httpswwwtramerendk
Blue Sea Thinking A Comparative Approach to Understanding Deep-Sea Mining Politics
in the UK and Japan
Date June 17 ndash 20 2019Location Kyoto Japan
MARE 2019 ndash People amp the Sea X learning from the past
imagining the future
Date June 24 ndash 28 2019Location Amsterdam The NetherlandsLink httpwwwmarecentrenl2019-people-
the-sea-conference
The Sixth International Conference with Youth Scientific Session Ecological
Engineering and Environment Protection
Date June 5 ndash 7 2019Location Burgas BulgariaLink httpswwwmelissafoundationorgnews
consult2
New Area Studies Colloquium 2019 Theory and Method Blurring Genres
Date July 10 ndash 11 2019Location Norwich England
Spatial Strategies at the Land-Sea Interface Rethinking Maritime Spatial Planning
Date September 11 ndash 13 2019Location Hamburg GermanyLink httpwwwaesop-planningeublogs
postsen_GBtransnational-and-cross-bor der-planning20190318readaboutspa tial-strategies-at-the-land-sea-interface-re-thinking-maritime-spatial-planning-call-for-paper-is-open
PhD workshop Interdisciplinary Marine Social Science
Date September 17 ndash 18 2019Location Lancaster EnglandLink httpswwwoceangoveunews_full
phd-workshop-interdisciplinary-marine- social-science
International Conference for YOUNG Marine Researchers (ICYMARE)
Date September 24 ndash 27 2019Location Bremen GermanyLink httpswwwicymarecom
LecturesPresentationsPanels
Past
Current and Upcoming
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 5
Current and Upcoming ldquoOceanic Spaces and the Future of Area Studiesrdquo Keynote at the workshop lsquoNew Area Studies Theory and Method Blurring Genresrsquo Norwich United Kingdom July 11 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine Social Sciences and Humanities for Sustainabilityrdquo Invited talk at VW-Herrenhausen Symposium Position-ing the Humanities in the 2020s Hannover Germany September 10 ndash 12 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoWe are all ocean geographers nowrdquo Presentation at the Deutscher Kongress fuumlr Geographie Kiel Germany September 28 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Oceanrsquos University ndash Marine sciences for and with young people
Project Coordination Zara Teixeira University of Coimbra
OceanGov member Alison NeilsonExpected starting date October 2019
Oceanrsquos University is a project coordinated by the Uni-versity of Coimbra The project aims to develop an innovative and structured model to bring young people closer to researchers and economic activities in the the-matic area of marine sciences and technologies based on the general principles of Childrenrsquos Universities The project expected to start in October 2019 comprises three main work packages WP1-Young People training WP2-Teachersrsquo training and WP3-Researchersrsquo training The main goals of WP1 are to motivate young people to embark on careers linked to marine research foster youth entrepreneurship for the Blue Economy and promote the increase of Ocean Literacy The main goal of WP2 is to create opportunities for new approaches in teaching practices through the training of teachers to integrate the concepts of Ocean Literacy and entrepreneurship in educational practices The main goal of WP3 is to build a dialogue between young people and RampD Units with relevance in the area of Marine Sciences and Technol-ogies through the training of researchers for effective knowledge transfer and science dissemination
West Indian Ocean Governance amp Exchange Network (WIOGEN)
Project Coordination International Ocean Institute South Africa amp Germany
OceanGov members Anna-Katharina Hornidge Achim Schluumlter Bianca Hurlemann Rapti Siriwar-dane-de Zoysa
Expected starting date June 1 2019 ndash June 30 2021
A new network on regional ocean governance connect-ing the partner countries Kenya Madagascar Seychelles Mozambique South Africa Tanzania was launched in June
WIOGEN is a scientific networking platform funded by the ldquoMeerWissen Initiativerdquo (Federal Ministry for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Development BMZ) with an integrative vision of social learning approaches that fosters regional ocean governance in the West Indian Ocean Region The network comprises a transdisciplinary science network of academic policy-related private and civil society partner institutions over a preliminary phase of two years It complements other regional marine science networks by focusing explicitly on integrative
New Projects Fieldwork
ldquoFisheries and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative Insights from Southeast Asia and West Africardquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge amp Henryk Alff
ldquoMarine Science Cultures Societal Contestations and Transnational Entanglements of European Marine Sciencesrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoFraming Perceiving and Dreaming the Oceanrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learn-ing from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoScience Policy for a Human-Ocean Relationshipsrdquo Plenary event at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoOn lsquoEpistemic (In-)equalitiesrsquo and the Marine Sciencesrdquo Talk at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine governancerdquo Presentation at the Second Interna-tional Science and Policy Conference on Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic Integrating information at different scales in the frame-work of EA implementation Bergen Norway June 25 ndash 27 2019 By Wenting Chen
ldquoUnderstanding sustainable behavioral patterns and perception of cruise tourism impacts based on cruise motivation as clustering criteriardquo Presentation at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 26 2019 By Darko Dimitrovski
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 6
Jobs amp Opportunities
ocean and coastal governance thus bringing together the social and marine sciences WIOGEN strongly focuses on the capacity development of early career ocean gov-ernance researchers policymakers tertiary educators and development practitioners
The platform is structured around three selected ocean governance themes
bull Nutritional security sustainable fisheries aquacul-ture and livelihoods
bull Marine spatial planning and coastal managementbull Biodiversity conservation pollution and habitat loss
For further information please refer to the announcement of the project launch at the website of the Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IASS Fellow Programme Call for Applications for 2020
Deadline July 14 2019
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS) is an international inter- and transdisciplinary research institute located in Potsdam It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal State of Brandenburg The main purpose of the institute is to conduct scientific research on global sustainability particularly in the following six areas
bull Perception values orientationbull Democratic transformationsbull Governance for the environment and societybull Systemic interdependencies technology nature societybull Energy systems and societal changebull Forums science policy and society
Link httpsfellowsiass-potsdamdeapplication
15th IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean
Black Baltic amp Caspian Seas
Deadline September 6 2019
This training programme builds upon the more than 35 years of experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity build-ing programmes on ocean governance The ocean governance content covers contemporary approach-es to coastal and ocean management with an emphasis on moral ethical and legal values in ocean governance (equity and peaceful uses of the ocean) under the governance architecture of UNCLOS and related international instruments and agreements
Link httpoceaniaresearchumedumtcmsioicourse
Call for Papers Edited Volume ldquoOcean Governance
Pasts Presents Futuresrdquo
Deadline August 5 2019
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) and Maria Hadjimichael (Vice Chair) invite contributions to a forth-coming volume in the MARE Publication Series
The aim of the proposed book is to provide an internationally visible compendium of salient discussions about the past and present con-tradictions and future outlooks of and on the governance of our oceans Particular empha-sis will be placed on the different narratives logics and rationales involved in constructing oceanic pasts the shaping of its present and the imagi-naries of future ocean governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines has arrived in the centre of European and global strategic and sustainability interests exposing and addressing the high degree of policy fragmentation and the lack of cross-scalar approaches to tackle existing chal-lenges This book aims to contribute to these ongoing debates in academia and policy-making by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and beyond relating to ocean governance in the thematic fields of
bull Land-Sea Interaction
bull Area-Based Management
bull Seabed Resource Management
bull Nutrition Security and Food Systems
bull Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
bull Fisheries Governance
Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 5th 2019 The editors will then ndash based on the received abstracts ndash develop the structure of the textbook further and invite full texts of maximum 9000 words each to be submitted November 30th 2019 At the current moment the book is planned to be pub-lished with Mare Series of Springer (to be confirmed with series editors once the volume structure is put together)
Please refer to the full announcement
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 5
Current and Upcoming ldquoOceanic Spaces and the Future of Area Studiesrdquo Keynote at the workshop lsquoNew Area Studies Theory and Method Blurring Genresrsquo Norwich United Kingdom July 11 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine Social Sciences and Humanities for Sustainabilityrdquo Invited talk at VW-Herrenhausen Symposium Position-ing the Humanities in the 2020s Hannover Germany September 10 ndash 12 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoWe are all ocean geographers nowrdquo Presentation at the Deutscher Kongress fuumlr Geographie Kiel Germany September 28 2019 By Philip Steinberg
Oceanrsquos University ndash Marine sciences for and with young people
Project Coordination Zara Teixeira University of Coimbra
OceanGov member Alison NeilsonExpected starting date October 2019
Oceanrsquos University is a project coordinated by the Uni-versity of Coimbra The project aims to develop an innovative and structured model to bring young people closer to researchers and economic activities in the the-matic area of marine sciences and technologies based on the general principles of Childrenrsquos Universities The project expected to start in October 2019 comprises three main work packages WP1-Young People training WP2-Teachersrsquo training and WP3-Researchersrsquo training The main goals of WP1 are to motivate young people to embark on careers linked to marine research foster youth entrepreneurship for the Blue Economy and promote the increase of Ocean Literacy The main goal of WP2 is to create opportunities for new approaches in teaching practices through the training of teachers to integrate the concepts of Ocean Literacy and entrepreneurship in educational practices The main goal of WP3 is to build a dialogue between young people and RampD Units with relevance in the area of Marine Sciences and Technol-ogies through the training of researchers for effective knowledge transfer and science dissemination
West Indian Ocean Governance amp Exchange Network (WIOGEN)
Project Coordination International Ocean Institute South Africa amp Germany
OceanGov members Anna-Katharina Hornidge Achim Schluumlter Bianca Hurlemann Rapti Siriwar-dane-de Zoysa
Expected starting date June 1 2019 ndash June 30 2021
A new network on regional ocean governance connect-ing the partner countries Kenya Madagascar Seychelles Mozambique South Africa Tanzania was launched in June
WIOGEN is a scientific networking platform funded by the ldquoMeerWissen Initiativerdquo (Federal Ministry for Eco-nomic Cooperation and Development BMZ) with an integrative vision of social learning approaches that fosters regional ocean governance in the West Indian Ocean Region The network comprises a transdisciplinary science network of academic policy-related private and civil society partner institutions over a preliminary phase of two years It complements other regional marine science networks by focusing explicitly on integrative
New Projects Fieldwork
ldquoFisheries and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative Insights from Southeast Asia and West Africardquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge amp Henryk Alff
ldquoMarine Science Cultures Societal Contestations and Transnational Entanglements of European Marine Sciencesrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoFraming Perceiving and Dreaming the Oceanrdquo Panel at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learn-ing from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoScience Policy for a Human-Ocean Relationshipsrdquo Plenary event at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoOn lsquoEpistemic (In-)equalitiesrsquo and the Marine Sciencesrdquo Talk at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 24 ndash 28 2019 By Anna-Katharina Hornidge
ldquoMarine ecosystem accounting to support coastal and marine governancerdquo Presentation at the Second Interna-tional Science and Policy Conference on Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic Integrating information at different scales in the frame-work of EA implementation Bergen Norway June 25 ndash 27 2019 By Wenting Chen
ldquoUnderstanding sustainable behavioral patterns and perception of cruise tourism impacts based on cruise motivation as clustering criteriardquo Presentation at the Mare 2019 conference People amp the Sea X Learning from the Past Imagining the Future Amsterdam the Netherlands June 26 2019 By Darko Dimitrovski
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 6
Jobs amp Opportunities
ocean and coastal governance thus bringing together the social and marine sciences WIOGEN strongly focuses on the capacity development of early career ocean gov-ernance researchers policymakers tertiary educators and development practitioners
The platform is structured around three selected ocean governance themes
bull Nutritional security sustainable fisheries aquacul-ture and livelihoods
bull Marine spatial planning and coastal managementbull Biodiversity conservation pollution and habitat loss
For further information please refer to the announcement of the project launch at the website of the Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IASS Fellow Programme Call for Applications for 2020
Deadline July 14 2019
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS) is an international inter- and transdisciplinary research institute located in Potsdam It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal State of Brandenburg The main purpose of the institute is to conduct scientific research on global sustainability particularly in the following six areas
bull Perception values orientationbull Democratic transformationsbull Governance for the environment and societybull Systemic interdependencies technology nature societybull Energy systems and societal changebull Forums science policy and society
Link httpsfellowsiass-potsdamdeapplication
15th IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean
Black Baltic amp Caspian Seas
Deadline September 6 2019
This training programme builds upon the more than 35 years of experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity build-ing programmes on ocean governance The ocean governance content covers contemporary approach-es to coastal and ocean management with an emphasis on moral ethical and legal values in ocean governance (equity and peaceful uses of the ocean) under the governance architecture of UNCLOS and related international instruments and agreements
Link httpoceaniaresearchumedumtcmsioicourse
Call for Papers Edited Volume ldquoOcean Governance
Pasts Presents Futuresrdquo
Deadline August 5 2019
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) and Maria Hadjimichael (Vice Chair) invite contributions to a forth-coming volume in the MARE Publication Series
The aim of the proposed book is to provide an internationally visible compendium of salient discussions about the past and present con-tradictions and future outlooks of and on the governance of our oceans Particular empha-sis will be placed on the different narratives logics and rationales involved in constructing oceanic pasts the shaping of its present and the imagi-naries of future ocean governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines has arrived in the centre of European and global strategic and sustainability interests exposing and addressing the high degree of policy fragmentation and the lack of cross-scalar approaches to tackle existing chal-lenges This book aims to contribute to these ongoing debates in academia and policy-making by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and beyond relating to ocean governance in the thematic fields of
bull Land-Sea Interaction
bull Area-Based Management
bull Seabed Resource Management
bull Nutrition Security and Food Systems
bull Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
bull Fisheries Governance
Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 5th 2019 The editors will then ndash based on the received abstracts ndash develop the structure of the textbook further and invite full texts of maximum 9000 words each to be submitted November 30th 2019 At the current moment the book is planned to be pub-lished with Mare Series of Springer (to be confirmed with series editors once the volume structure is put together)
Please refer to the full announcement
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 6
Jobs amp Opportunities
ocean and coastal governance thus bringing together the social and marine sciences WIOGEN strongly focuses on the capacity development of early career ocean gov-ernance researchers policymakers tertiary educators and development practitioners
The platform is structured around three selected ocean governance themes
bull Nutritional security sustainable fisheries aquacul-ture and livelihoods
bull Marine spatial planning and coastal managementbull Biodiversity conservation pollution and habitat loss
For further information please refer to the announcement of the project launch at the website of the Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
IASS Fellow Programme Call for Applications for 2020
Deadline July 14 2019
The Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies eV (IASS) is an international inter- and transdisciplinary research institute located in Potsdam It is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal State of Brandenburg The main purpose of the institute is to conduct scientific research on global sustainability particularly in the following six areas
bull Perception values orientationbull Democratic transformationsbull Governance for the environment and societybull Systemic interdependencies technology nature societybull Energy systems and societal changebull Forums science policy and society
Link httpsfellowsiass-potsdamdeapplication
15th IOI Training Programme on Regional Ocean Governance for the Mediterranean
Black Baltic amp Caspian Seas
Deadline September 6 2019
This training programme builds upon the more than 35 years of experience of the International Ocean Institute in conducting training and capacity build-ing programmes on ocean governance The ocean governance content covers contemporary approach-es to coastal and ocean management with an emphasis on moral ethical and legal values in ocean governance (equity and peaceful uses of the ocean) under the governance architecture of UNCLOS and related international instruments and agreements
Link httpoceaniaresearchumedumtcmsioicourse
Call for Papers Edited Volume ldquoOcean Governance
Pasts Presents Futuresrdquo
Deadline August 5 2019
Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Action chair) and Maria Hadjimichael (Vice Chair) invite contributions to a forth-coming volume in the MARE Publication Series
The aim of the proposed book is to provide an internationally visible compendium of salient discussions about the past and present con-tradictions and future outlooks of and on the governance of our oceans Particular empha-sis will be placed on the different narratives logics and rationales involved in constructing oceanic pasts the shaping of its present and the imagi-naries of future ocean governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines has arrived in the centre of European and global strategic and sustainability interests exposing and addressing the high degree of policy fragmentation and the lack of cross-scalar approaches to tackle existing chal-lenges This book aims to contribute to these ongoing debates in academia and policy-making by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from Europe and beyond relating to ocean governance in the thematic fields of
bull Land-Sea Interaction
bull Area-Based Management
bull Seabed Resource Management
bull Nutrition Security and Food Systems
bull Ocean Climate Change and Acidification
bull Fisheries Governance
Contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 5th 2019 The editors will then ndash based on the received abstracts ndash develop the structure of the textbook further and invite full texts of maximum 9000 words each to be submitted November 30th 2019 At the current moment the book is planned to be pub-lished with Mare Series of Springer (to be confirmed with series editors once the volume structure is put together)
Please refer to the full announcement
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
European COST Action OceanGov Newsletter 8 October 2018 7
2nd MeerWissen Call for Concepts
Deadline September 15 2019
The second call for partnership projects is now open for applications In this call the MeerWissen Initiative seeks to support projects that contribute to Strengthening Marine Biodiversity Conservation in Sustainable Blue Economy Approaches in Africa
You can apply by submitting a concept to meerwissen [at] gizde using the provided templates Funding for partner-ship projects is expected to commence in December 2019
Link httpsmeerwissenorgnewsdetail2nd-meewissen-call-for-concepts-now-open
From Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14
The meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action ldquoFrom Commitments to Action Implementing SDG14rdquo aims to share best practices and experiences amongst the members of different Communities of Ocean Action and any interested stakeholders to provide partnership opportunities and to catalyse further pledges for ocean action It informs the deliberations of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2019 and will contribute to the preparatory process in the lead-up to the 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference
From 30 ndash 31 May the PROG Marine Regions Forum project attended the UN meeting of the Communities of Ocean Action (COAs) in Incheon South Korea The meet-ing brought together the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) made at the 2017 UN Ocean Conference ndash a growing list that now includes more than 1500 commitments for action to advance the implementation of SDG 14
Link httpsdgiisdorgeventscommuni-ties-of-ocean-action-from-commit-ments-to-action-implementing-sdg14
Juan L Suaacuterez-de Vivero joined the MSPGlobal Expert Group
MSPGlobal is a joint initiative by UNESCOrsquos Intergov-ernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) and the European Commissionrsquos Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) to develop new international guidelines on Maritime Spatial Planning
The Group of Experts is composed of eight members and its role is to assist IOCUNESCO-DG MARE in drafting global guidelines for transboundary marine spatial plan-ning (2019-2020)
For more information please refer to the website of MSPGlobal
Workshop Report Before the Blue COP
Organised by the ldquoBecause the Ocean Initiativerdquo the technical workshop lsquoBefore the Blue COPrsquo was held from 10-11 April 2019 at the Headquarters of the Span-ish Ministry for the Ecological Transitionrsquos Biodiversity Foundation in Madrid Spain The conference brought together 50 participants from the government and the scientific community They discussed examples of ocean action that can contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change improving the resilience of coastal communities and increasing the conservation of marine ecosystems
Link httpsenbiisdorgoceansbefore-the-blue-cophtmlenbplus186num17ehtml
Additional Information of Interest
Cover Picture by Matthew Feeney on Unsplash Source httpsunsplashcomphotosJRRfBvYK4og
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
Background Information
Imprint
The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coast-lines is moving into the centre of European strategic and sustainability interests Yet it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation and the lack of a cross-scalar approach to addressing prevailing policy shortcomings The COST Action on ldquoOcean Governance for Sustainability - Chal-lenges Options and the Role of Sciencerdquo comprises a unique transdisciplinary network of 28 countries with regional and international outreach The network aims to establish an integrative vision and a series of approach-es that informs research and future policy directions on crosscutting sustainability-driven issues related to the fragmented governance framework of oceans seas and coastlines within regional waters and the open ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction The network dif-fers from thematic predecessors in two distinct ways While attending to the multiple flows and connectivities
between varied marine systems together with land- and sea-based interfaces that are biologically culturally politically and socio-economically entwined it first renders equal importance to strengthening regional and interdisciplinary dialogue producing scientific output crosscutting the natural and social sciences Synergistic issue-driven working groups will be created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean gov-ernance and will continue to evolve well after this COST Action ends Second the network creates a distinct multi-scalar and cross-sectoral platform for institutional partners across academia policymaking and civil society presenting inclusive spaces for transdisciplinary dialogue capacity development and the advancement of practical toolkits that attend to science-policy gaps inherent within integrated ocean and coastal governance
Publisher
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
Fahrenheitstraszlige 6
28359 Bremen | Germany
Phone (+49) 42123800-153
Email oceangovleibniz-zmtde
Web wwwoceangoveu
Newsletter Editors
Prof Dr Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Bianca Hurlemann
Lucas Barning
Timo Ottolin
Layout Lucas Barning Timo Ottolin
The OceanGov Newsletter is a publication by the OceanGov Network free of charge
Network Funded By
European Corporation in Science and Technology (COST)
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020