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| npj ocean sustainability: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance Justin Alger, U. R. Sumaila, 2025-03-12 This prescient Research Agenda explores innovative and interdisciplinary pathways forward for ocean governance. Justin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila bring together an international array of expert authors, providing a roadmap for shaping ocean governance across the globe to achieve long-term sustainability. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Ocean Governance Stefan Partelow, Maria Hadjimichael, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, 2023-03-01 This Open Access book on Ocean Governance examines sustainability challenges facing our oceans today. The book is organized into three sections: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. The knowledge produced in the book was catalyzed by the scientific outcomes within the European-funded Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) network “Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science”. This network brings together scientists, policy-makers and civil society representatives from 28 nation states to cooperate on ocean governance research. This book offers a compilation of new research material including focused case studies, broad policy syntheses and reflective chapters on the history and current status of knowledge production systems on ocean governance. New research material is presented, although some chapters draw on secondary sources. The book starts with synthetic review chapters from the editors, outlining past and present knowledge systems, addressing how and why ocean governance for sustainability is where it currently stands with critical reflections on existing narratives, path dependencies and colonialist histories. This is followed by chapters addressing, synthesizing and analyzing different legal and policy frameworks for ocean governance both regionally and internationally. At the core of the book are the thematic analyses, which provide focused case studies with detailed contextual information in support of different ocean governance challenges and sustainability pathways around the world. The book concludes with a chapter explicitly targeting students, researchers and policy-makers with key take-away messages compiled by the editors. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Differentiating and defining ‘exposed’ and ‘offshore’ aquaculture and implications for aquaculture operation, management, costs, and policy Tyler Sclodnick, Kevin Gerald Heasman, Bela H. Buck, 2025-02-17 Ocean based aquaculture has typically occurred in protected coastal environments, however the industry and been expanding into offshore locations over the past few decades. The term “offshore” has been used to broadly define any aquaculture facility that either is spatially far from shore, or exposed to high-energy environments even though these are different situations. In most cases, however, offshore is not used in its primary sense, namely the distance from the coastline. A definition for “offshore” in the context of aquaculture has not been clearly defined and continues to lead to ambiguity and confusion among industry participants, support industries, academics, and regulators. Recent advances in the sector, and a growing need to produce seafood from offshore environments, creates a necessity for research and analysis to define and characterize the environments currently described as “offshore” and create a framework for industry members to understand and describe ocean environments effectively. The research topic seeks to create a framework for describing aquaculture environments in the context of distance from shore and ocean energy, as well as explore how these two parameters impact aquaculture technology, operations, regulation, and economics. Submissions should add to the understanding of offshore or open ocean aquaculture farms specifically in the context of the environment in which they operate. A focus will be on creating definitions for the terms “offshore”, “open ocean”, and “high-energy” in the context of marine farming such that these terms can be used more effectively in the future. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Sustainable Development Seen Through the Lenses of Ethnoeconomics and the Circular Economy Walter Leal Filho, Vladan Kuzmanović, 2024-11-22 This book introduces ethnoeconomics, explaining how cultural, social, and historical factors influence economic behavior and decision-making. The book also delves into the principles of the circular economy, emphasizing the importance of designing out waste, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. It explores how these principles can contribute to sustainable economic growth and resilience. The book also explores how insights from ethnoeconomics can inform and enhance the implementation of circular economy principles, with case studies and theoretical frameworks that showcase the benefits of this integration for sustainable development. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Hydrofeminist Thinking With Oceans Tamara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, Nike Romano, 2023-12-19 Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans brings together authors who are thinking in, with and through the spaces of ocean/s and beaches in South African contexts to make alternative knowledges towards a justice-to-come and flourishing at a planetary level. Primary scholarly locations for this work include feminist new materialist and post-humanist thinking, and specifically locates itself within hydrofeminist thinking. Together with a foreword by Astrida Neimanis, the chapters in this book explore both land and water with oceans as powerfully political spaces, globally and locally entangled in the violences of settler colonialism, land dispossession, slavery, transnational labour exploitation, extractivism and omnicides. South Africa is a productive space to engage in such scholarship. While there is a growing body of literature that works within and across disciplines on the sea and bodies of water to think critically about the damages of centuries of colonisation and continued extractivist capitalism, there remains little work that explores this burgeoning thinking in global Southern, and more particularly South African contexts. South African histories of colonisation, slavery and more recently apartheid, which are saturated in the oceans, are only recently being explored through oceanic logics. This volume offers valuable Southern contributions and rich situated narratives to such hydrofeminist thinking. It also brings diverse and more marginal knowledges to bear on the project of generating imaginative alternatives to hegemonic colonial and patriarchal logics in the academy and elsewhere. While primarily located in a South African context, the volume speaks well to globalised concerns for justice and environmental challenges both in human societies and in relation to other species and planetary crises. The chapters, which will be of interest to scholars, activists and other civil society stakeholders, share inspiring, rich examples of diverse scholarship, activism and art in these contexts, extending international scholarship that thinks in/on/with ocean/s, littoral zones and bodies of water. The book offers ethico-political perspectives on the role of research in ocean governance, policy development and collective decision-making for ecological justice. This book is suitable for students and scholars of post-qualitative, feminist, new materialist, embodied, arts-based and hydrofeminist methods in education, environmental humanities and the social sciences. |
| npj ocean sustainability: International Collaboration in Ocean Science and Governance Carolijn van Noort, 2025-04-10 This book introduces a novel model to explain how the co-design and co-delivery of ocean science knowledge and solutions is influenced by ocean stakeholders with asymmetric power and resources, policy incentives and ocean conflict, ocean narratives, different knowledge systems, security concerns, principles, formal and informal rules, and communication competences. Using the International Collaboration in Ocean Science model as a basis, the book advances with three lines of inquiry: ontological security of ocean science participants, the Ocean Decade and human well-being, and strategic narratives about international collaboration in ocean science. Through these, Carolijn van Noort shows the enabling and constraining conditions of co-creating ocean knowledge and solutions. Theoretically novel, the book provides a compelling framework for scholars to study ocean science collaboration |
| npj ocean sustainability: Science-Policy Interfaces in Global Environmental Governance Matteo De Donà, 2024-09-11 This Brief discusses science–policy interfaces (SPIs) in global environmental governance. Broadly speaking, SPIs can be understood as institutional arrangements that aim to bridge science and policy within a specific issue-area with a view to facilitating the solution of relevant societal problems. Although the scholarly literature on SPIs has grown substantially over the last two decades, there are still several myths and misconceptions about such bodies: these are often reflected in the practice of science–policy bridging within international organizations such as the United Nations. Offering an accessible discussion of the promises and pitfalls of SPIs, the book deliberately targets a hybrid audience, reaching out to both academics and practitioners. By reconstructing relevant theoretical debates across different scholarly fields, such as International Relations and Science and Technology Studies, and by taking stock of key hands-on experiences, this Brief connects the theory and practice of global SPIs, reflecting on the role of critical social science research as far as the interplay between science and policy in international environmental governance is concerned. On the basis of a balanced analysis of the strengths and shortcomings of global SPIs, this volume intends to provide readers with a faithful picture of the current international science–policy landscape as well as with an informed opportunity to evaluate these institutional arrangements’ potential for helping to address the global environmental challenges that the world is facing today. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Securing Sustainable Futures Through Blue and Green Economies Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia, Lytras, Miltiadis D., Malik, Sawsan, 2025-02-07 New digital tools have the potential to accelerate the transformation of economies and societies towards a more inclusive and resilient future. In the case of the European Union, the European Green Deal aims to transform Europe into the first climate neutral continent. It focuses on a variety of areas of interest: climate, energy, environment and oceans, transport, industry, and R&I, among others. On the other hand, the EU Blue Economy Observatory focuses on seas, oceans and coasts, and studies the economic activities linked to them. Research on blue economy and green economy can provide valuable knowledge and insights about how countries and companies can create new business opportunities, jobs and economic growth. Securing Sustainable Futures Through Blue and Green Economies discusses innovative approaches and views, exploring simultaneously how blue economy’s policies and strategies, green economy’s actions and priorities, and digital transformation can successfully pave the road towards more inclusive and digital societies. Additionally, it seeks to foster dialogue and research about national priorities and strategies, share knowledge about latest research in these fields, and foster scientific collaboration among different stakeholders, including industry, policy, and civil society. Covering topics such as corporate social responsibility, the labor market, and population growth, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, scholars, academicians, professionals, and more. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Climate Urbanism Vanesa Castán Broto, Enora Robin, Aidan While, 2020-11-28 This book argues that the relationship between cities and climate change is entering a new and more urgent phase. Thirteen contributions from a range of leading scholars explore the need to rethink and reorient urban life in response to climatic change. Split into four parts it begins by asking ‘What is climate urbanism?’ and exploring key features from different locations and epistemological traditions. The second section examines the transformative potential of climate urbanism to challenge social and environmental injustices within and between cities. In the third part authors interrogate current knowledge paradigms underpinning climate and urban science and how they shape contemporary urban trajectories. The final section focuses on the future, envisaging climate urbanism as a new communal project, and focuses on the role of citizens and non-state actors in driving transformative action. Consolidating debates on climate urbanism, the book highlights the opportunities and tensions of urban environmental policy, providing a framework for researchers and practitioners to respond to the urban challenges of a radically climate-changed world. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Biotechnological Innovations for Sustainable Biodiversity and Development Ranbir Chander Sobti, 2025-03-31 This book reviews the important role of biotechnological innovations in achieving sustainable development goals and conserving global biodiversity. It presents the latest biotechnological techniques used to identify and characterize various groups of plants and animals, such as genomic tools for animal identification, and DNA barcoding for precise plant characterization. It also reviews the utility of proteomics and metabolomics in enhancing our understanding of diverse species. The book also discusses responsible development and sustainable utilization of bioresources, including strategies for conserving and managing bioresources, bioprospecting for novel biodiscoveries, and sustainable agricultural practices to preserve agrobiodiversity. Further, the book addresses the pressing challenges faced by biodiversity, including the far-reaching effects of climate change, the threat posed by invasive species, the consequences of pollution on biodiversity degradation, and the interplay between diseases and biodiversity decline. Toward the end, the book analyzes the impact of environmental degradation on biodiversity and explores emerging technologies in biodiversity conservation, focusing on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The book will interest scientists, researchers, policymakers, environmentalists, academics, and students involved in biotechnology, ecology, genetics, and conservation biology. Key Features: Discusses cutting-edge biotechnological innovations for biodiversity conservation Presents cutting-edge biotechnological techniques for identifying and characterizing selected groups of plants and animals Addresses critical environmental challenges such as climate change, invasive species, and pollution |
| npj ocean sustainability: What the Wild Sea Can Be Helen Scales, 2024-07-16 The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world’s ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of the abundant life within in No matter where we live, “we are all ocean people,” Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Scales links past to present to show how the prehistoric ocean ecology was already working in ways similar to the ocean of today. In elegant, evocative prose, she takes readers into the realms of animals that epitomize today’s increasingly challenging conditions. Ocean life everywhere is on the move as seas warm, and warm waters are an existential threat to emperor penguins, whose mating grounds in Antarctica are collapsing. Shark populations—critical to balanced ecosystems—have shrunk by 71 per cent since the 1970s, largely the result of massive and oft-unregulated industrial fishing. Orcas—the apex predators—have also drastically declined, victims of toxic chemicals and plastics with long half-lives that disrupt the immune system and the ability to breed. Yet despite these threats, many hopeful signs remain. Increasing numbers of no-fish zones around the world are restoring once-diminishing populations. Amazing seagrass meadows and giant kelp forests rivaling those on land are being regenerated and expanded. They may be our best defense against the storm surges caused by global warming, while efforts to reengineer coral reefs for a warmer world are growing. Offering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Scales insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining, which could significantly alter life on earth. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the Anthropocene ocean. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Decoding Marine Genetic Resource Governance Under the BBNJ Agreement Fran Humphries, 2025-02-03 This open access book provides practical guidance for understanding the new treaty adopted in June 2023 that will change the way biodiversity is governed in about two thirds of the oceans known as areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). The Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction is an achievement for global cooperation in conservation, sustainability and equity. The treaty provisions in Part II on Marine Genetic Resource (MGR) governance were the most contentious element of negotiations, resulting in significant innovation and compromise. It has an ambitious framework with many details yet to be fleshed out after the treaty comes into force. There is no comprehensive guidance for stakeholders about what the treaty means for their current and future research and development (R&D) and commercialisation of MGR of ABNJ, digital sequence information and associated traditional knowledge. Through a detailed commentary and real world examples, this book interprets and analyses the treaty text to offer practical considerations, guidelines and tools to assist policy makers as well as scientists and commercial end users to align their R&D practices with the expected implementation of the treaty. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Transformation Towards Sustainability Peter Letmathe, Christine Roll, Almut Balleer, Stefan Böschen, Wolfgang Breuer, Agnes Förster, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Kathrin Greiff, Roger Häußling, Max Lemme, Michael Leuchner, Maren Paegert, Frank T. Piller, Elke Seefried, Thorsten Wahlbrink, 2024-05-13 The global environmental crisis, technological developments, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing economic and political globalization are just a few of the developments that are massively increasing the pressure for transformation on regions, companies and society as a whole. In addition, the digital age is accelerating transformation processes that are already underway. This contributed book addresses these developments and presents a new framework for transformation research and practice that has been developed and already validated by researchers of the RWTH Aachen University. The RWTH way includes inter- and transdisciplinary approaches from many disciplines, looking at technological and societal change from different perspectives. A distinction is made between analysis, i.e., research on transformation processes, impact, i.e., transformational research, and change in research itself, i.e. research transformation. The book not only creates a new understanding of transformation research, but also provides actionable impulses for scholars and practitioners in many fields. This is an open access book. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Environmental stewardship by small-scale fisheries Charles, A., Macnaughton, A., Hicks, S., 2024-01-12 Small-scale fisheries (SSF), including fishers and fishworkers together with their communities and organizations, are among the world’s most effective contributors to safeguarding aquatic resources and environments. Living near to, and relying on, freshwater and marine aquatic species and environments, small-scale fisheries are at the heart of environmental conservation and stewardship – of caring for and sustainably using aquatic environments, managing fisheries for sustainable use, protecting and restoring local ecosystems, and working with others towards these goals. The key role played by SSF organizations and fishing communities is well recognized in the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and in the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) which note that “States should recognize the role of small-scale fishing communities and Indigenous Peoples to restore, conserve, protect and co-manage local aquatic and coastal ecosystems.” Thanks to the active participation of many small-scale fishing communities and organizations, this publication draws on real-world examples of small-scale fisheries stewardship to highlight the various forms of stewardship, to outline ingredients of success in that stewardship, and to describe how policymakers and others can support those stewardship activities around the world. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Blue Economy and Ocean Sustainable Development in a Globalised World: Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues Ibukun J. Adewumi, Andrei Polejack, Joanna Vince, Maree E. Fudge, 2023-12-05 In the last decade, the concept of a Blue Economy has ignited a deep theoretical debate. Ranging from the integration of the triple bottom line of sustainability to the optimization of profit from ocean exploitation, the meaning of the term blue economy differs considerably between epistemic communities and even more so among national and regional policies. There is a general sense of the opportunity to realise enhanced social and economic benefits from the sustainable utilisation of their ocean and coastal resources under the umbrella framework of blue economy. Blue economy is gaining traction already as a significant component of national policies, even in spite of a clear conceptualization of the term. Many countries are now preparing national policies towards realising their blue economy ambitions, utilizing the concept as they see fit. Likewise, multilateral and regional organisations are developing guidelines, and providing investment in new research, technologies, and financing tools that promote blue economy. Critical challenges abound, in particular in less privileged countries. These include the gap in research capabilities, governments prioritizing social wellbeing and economic profit in contrast to environmental protection, the identification of new and emerging areas of ocean economic activity that are both socially and ecologically sustainable and holds viable business models that can attract private investment. |
| npj ocean sustainability: The Presence of International Organizations in the Evolution of the International Law of the Sea , 2025-03-20 2024 marked thirty years since the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The process of adoption of UNCLOS and its influence on the development of the Law of the Sea are a good illustration of the important role that international organizations have played in contemporary international Law of the Sea, as they are the main producers of international norms. This book focuses on the role of the international (universal, regional, and subregional) organizations in the application of the provisions of UNCLOS and on how their legal orders have been veritable laboratories in which to test the scope of the provisions or rules of UNCLOS. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Ecological Law in Practice Geoffrey Garver, 2024-10-21 This book presents a series of ecological law case studies, designed to illustrate in concrete, real-world ways how ecological law would transform law in a range of diverse contexts. Ecological law is an emerging, and currently mostly theoretical, discipline grounded in the need to shift away from anthropocentric legal systems, which aim to promote economic growth using strong protections of private property regimes and state sovereignty, to ecological approaches, which emphasize ecocentrism, the primacy of ecological limits, and intragenerational, intergenerational, and interspecies fairness and justice. The ecological law case studies presented in this book apply the theoretical principles and concepts of ecological law to diverse real-world situations or activities in several countries and contexts. Taking up a range of examples from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria, the United States, and internationally, the book demonstrates the concrete relevance of ecological law to contemporary sustainability challenges, as it reveals pathways for overcoming real-world challenges in the implementation and public acceptance of ecological law. This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, and policy makers working in the area of environmental law and governance, as well as others with relevant interests in sociolegal studies, human geography, political science, and environmental studies. |
| npj ocean sustainability: The Science and Culture of Surfing David M. Kennedy, 2025-03-29 This volume explores all aspects of surfing from the underlying physics of waves, the shape of wave breaks through to the development of surf culture and its influence on society. It explores the links between science and engineering with arts, sociology and economics, all through the lens of surfing. The book provides the one-stop location of knowledge on this global sport, bringing together the leading researchers in the field in a coherent framework. The book will appeal to undergraduate students and the general public, and will cater to readers from all backgrounds due to its transdisciplinary reach. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Industrial Ecology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Khan, Syed Abdul Rehman, Tanveer, Muhammad, 2025-05-13 Industrialization has created significant pollution on this planet, threatening human, plant, and animal life. The primary goal of sustainable development is to protect our living environment through sustainable ideology. The relationship between industrial ecology and the natural environment is of particular importance. Therefore, technological innovations, methodologies, and approaches are important for flourishing sustainability for better future generations. Industrial Ecology and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) discusses innovative green approaches and technologies, which can be employed in industries to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). It features coverage of a broad range of topics and actionable insights into sustainable industry practices and ecological strategies. Covering topics such as circular economy, family firms, and green purchase, this book is an excellent resource for business owners, environmentalists, industry practitioners, researchers, scientists, academicians, and more. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Animal Law Simon Brooman, Deborah Legge, Deborah Rook, Rachel Dunn, 2025-04-30 An examination of the law relating to animals, in the UK and with consideration to European and international law, from the perspective of policy, society, philosophy, history and economics. Animal Law leads us through the development of animals in society and how they have featured in the law from a historical perspective to illustrate the passage of animal’s status up to the present. As well as setting animal law in context, the book looks at specific practical instances of animals in law – animals in rented property, dangerous dogs, puppy farming, animal testing, and animals in zoo. A global picture is examined by looking at the law relating to international trade, illegal animal trading, environmental protections and habitat loss. Animal law students and practitioners, as well as animal welfarists and ethicists will find this book a valuable resource. 5m Books |
| npj ocean sustainability: Renewable Hydrogen Mohit Bibra, Rajesh Sani, Sudhir Kumar, 2024-06-12 Renewable Hydrogen: Opportunities and Challenges in Commercial Success presents fundamental principles and the latest research and technological advances in renewable hydrogen commercialization. With commercial scenarios and case studies, the book offers practical guidance for the scale-up of hydrogen production and storage.Beginning with an introduction to alternative energy resources, Part 1 presents a deep dive into the chemical, biochemical and electrochemical processes of hydrogen production. Part 2 discusses hydrogen storage and transportation, with Part 3 reviewing the applications of hydrogen in the automobile, space and chemical industries. Finally, Part 4 considers future perspectives, including challenges and techno economics.Renewable Hydrogen: Opportunities and Challenges in Commercial Success is an essential read for those seeking to understand how to successfully apply hydrogen production and storage research to an industrial scale. - Presents a comprehensive review of hydrogen production and scale-up perspective - Provides a detailed compilation of commercial scale hydrogen storage, along with opportunities and challenges faced during economical production - Highlights future trends and government policies that will impact the renewable hydrogen production |
| npj ocean sustainability: Offshore Wind Licensing Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Tina Soliman Hunter, 2024-03-14 This incisive book provides a timely and magisterial analysis of offshore wind licensing processes and their regulation from a global perspective. It not only explores the concept of licensing and the governance frameworks and backgrounds in which licensing rules are developed, but also looks at the crucial legal challenges facing the licensing of offshore wind farms that regulators, legislatures, operators, and legal practitioners are likely to encounter. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Sustainable Bioeconomy Development in the Global South Matthew Chidozie Ogwu, Sylvester Chibueze Izah, Jorge Gabriel Vazquez-Arenas, Shiferaw T. Feleke, Xun Wei, 2025-02-18 This book covers sustainable bioeconomy techniques and practices in the Global South with a view to promote innovation. The priority areas, needs and required supportive framework by national and international agencies for a sustainable bioeconomy is highlighted. The book also discusses emerging techniques and approaches being used for further development as well as their current and potential impact on important economic sectors. It is predicted that these techniques have the capacity and potential to shape economic growth and development of the Global South. Key sectors that would likely witness the most impact include energy, agriculture, food systems, construction, medicine and pharmaceuticals, engineering, and textiles. Adopting or innovating advanced bioeconomy techniques and practices would boost energy, income, and food security, and independence as well as the competitiveness of the Global South. This volume is a reference for bioeconomy practitioners, activists, students, private and public employees, academics, researchers, environmentalists, ecologists, social scientists, agricultural scientists, and economists. It is also useful for biodiversity experts, policymakers, conservationists and industries interested in promoting sustainable bioeconomy development in the Global South. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Fueling Resistance Kate J. Neville, 2021-01-18 A series of concurrent pressures in the early 2000s--climate change, financial system crashes, economic development in rural regions, and shifts in geopolitics--intensified interest in alternative energy production. At the same time, rising oil prices rendered alternative fuels a more economically viable option. Among these energy sources, liquid biofuels (bioethanol and biodiesel) and natural gas derived from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) took center stage as promising commodities and technologies. But controversy quickly erupted in surprisingly similar ways around both renewable fuels. Global enthusiasm for these fuels--and the widespread projections for their production around the world--collided with local politics in debates over food versus fuel and concerns over land grabs. What seemed, from a global perspective, like empty lands ripe for development were, to rural communities, vibrant and already contested spaces. As proposals for biofuels and fracking landed in specific communities and ecosystems, they reignited and reshaped old disputes over land, water, and decision-making authority. Fueling Resistance offers an account of how and why controversies over these different fuels unfolded in surprisingly similar ways in the global North and South. To explain these convergent dynamics of contention and resistance, Kate J. Neville argues that the emergence of grievances and the patterns of resistance to new fuel technologies depends less on the type of energy developed (renewable versus fossil fuel) than on intersecting elements of the political economy of energy: finance, ownership, and trade relations. As local commodities enter global supply chains and are integrated into existing corporate structures, opportunities arise to broker connections between otherwise disparate communities. Neville looks at biofuels in Kenya and fracking in the Canadian Yukon and shows how organizers connect specific energy projects to broader issues of globalization, climate, food, water, and justice. Taken together, the intersecting elements of the political economy of energy shape the contentious politics of biofuels and fracking at both local and global scales, and help explain how and why particular mechanisms of contention emerge at different times and places. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere Nsah Mala, Nicki Hitchcott, 2025-05-23 Through a postcolonial lens, this book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening the Earth today. The volume covers most of the francosphere: Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, South America and Polynesia. As well as discussing a range of environmental issues, from soil erosion to nuclear testing, it also considers ways in which francophone writers have become ecological activists. The ecotexts discussed include graphic novels, visual narratives, and zines alongside more conventional literary texts such as novels, short stories and poetry. The book seeks to decentre Belgium and France in francophone ecocritical scholarship while engaging in current debates in the field of ecocriticism, including the afterlives of Belgian and French colonialism and neo-colonialism in relation to climate change and environmental degradation, Blue Humanities, waste and toxicity studies, critical animal and plant studies, Indigenous peoples and their cultures and knowledges, climate-environmental (in)justice, and writerly/textual activism for climate and environment. It aims to widen the geographical scope of francophone ecocriticism by discussing a wide range of eco-themes that go beyond the segmentation and compartmentalisation found in other books in the field. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Advances in Marine Environmental Protection: Challenges, Solutions and Perspectives Mehran Idris Khan, Yen-Chiang Chang, Wen-Hong Liu, 2025-04-29 Environments have no boundaries and no borders. Managing oceanic environments, particularly the threats and risks of pollution, should also consider the shared responsibility of all coastal states. Emerging issues for oceanic pollution governance include global changes like rising temperature, ocean acidification, but also disturbances of ecosystem functioning by plastic and pollution by other emerging contaminants, for example, noise pollution and deep-sea mining. These call for efficient and sustainable prevention and restoration strategies, such as such as efficient urban and industrial sewage treatment plants, efficiently administered transnational marine protected areas, and among others, sustainable aquaculture, extensive small-scale fisheries. Environmental protection warrants the development of interrelationships between marine sciences, relevant industries, and ocean governance developing internationally accepted rules and regulations for sustainable ocean management. This Research Topic will explore possible new domains of ocean governance and the marine environment from the interdisciplinary perspectives of the rule of law including the international agreement on equal conventions, the Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, the Convention on the International Regulation for Preventing Collisions at Sea, and International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL). |
| npj ocean sustainability: World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025 United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2025-01-22 |
| npj ocean sustainability: OECD Urban Studies The Blue Economy in Cities and Regions A Territorial Approach OECD, 2024-04-12 The blue economy is a major driver of urban and regional development, creating millions of local jobs in water-dependent sectors such as fisheries, tourism, and shipping. However, it can also contribute to carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation, while its reliance on freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems exposes it to the impacts of climate change. As the places where the blue economy takes place, creates value and provides jobs, cities and regions play a key role in unlocking the potential of a resilient blue economy that preserves the ecosystems that sustain it. Building on a global survey of 80+ cities, regions and basins, this report highlights the costs and benefits of the blue economy at subnational level, shedding light on the link between the blue economy and water security. This analysis provides an overview of the multi-level governance of the blue economy and related gaps. It calls on cities and regions to develop resilient, inclusive, sustainable and circular (RISC-proof) blue economies by establishing the right governance conditions related to policy making, policy coherence and policy implementation. The report concludes with a RISC Assessment Framework that offers a self-evaluation tool for subnational governments. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Environmental Law and Governance in India Sairam Bhat, 2024-08-20 This book provides an insightful and holistic up-to-date perspective of the constitutional governance and legal framework in India with regard to environmental protection. Covering the foundational principles of environmental law, the book details the current status of international environmental law in the face of complex environmental challenges including climate change. The topics covered include water resource governance, and coastal regulation, with a particular focus on the growing significance of the National Green Tribunal. It also covers the wide range of policies that have been introduced over the past 50 years and the impact these have had. The book will be of interest to researchers, legal practitioners, and scholars in the field of environmental law and governance as well as international law. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Lisa Emelia Svensson, Anil Markandya, 2017-02-24 The trans-disciplinary thematic areas of oceans management and policy require stocktaking of the state of knowledge on ecosystem services being derived from coastal and marine areas. Recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially Goals 14 and 15 explicitly focus on this. This Handbook brings together a carefully chosen set of world-class contributions from ecology, economics, and other development science and attempts to provide policy relevant scientific information on ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems, nuances of economic valuation, relevant legal and sociological response policies for effective management of marine areas for enhanced human well being. The contributors focus on the possible nexus of science-society and science-policy with the objective of informing on decision makers of the governmental agencies, business and industry and civil society in general with respect to sustainable management of Oceans. |
| npj ocean sustainability: New frontiers of marine governance in the ocean decade Helena Calado, Catarina Frazão Santos , José Guerreiro, Jan Van Tatenhove, Marie Bonnin, 2023-08-30 |
| npj ocean sustainability: 16th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium Alexandra Anh-Thu Weber, Eleonora Puccinelli, Paris Vasileios Stefanoudis, Daniela Zeppilli, 2023-11-28 The 16th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium was held in Brest, France, and online from the 12th to the 17th of September 2021. The first DSBS hybrid symposium brought together scientists, students, managers, policymakers, and industry specialists who presented advances in deep-sea research. Themes of the symposium, and of this Research Topic, include: - Conservation and stewardship: natural/anthropogenic impacts, conservation, governance. This includes but it is not limited to: deep-seabed mining, pollutants and debris, climate change impacts; marine spatial planning; stewardship of the deep ocean; - Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: biodiversity patterns, species distribution, function; from polar to temperate regions, mesopelagic to hadal, microbes to large pelagic; - Life-history traits and population connectivity: reproductive ecology, larval development and dispersal, and population connectivity; - Adaptations of deep-sea organisms: from molecules to organisms: how life adapts to extreme conditions, including for instance bioluminescence and vision in the deep-sea; - Access to the deep sea: technological and methodological advances to access and investigate deep-sea life, including observatories and cutting edge technologies –e.g. A.I. and omics; - Deep-sea biomimicry: discovery of new technologies inspired by deep-sea biological solutions; - Science communication in the deep including innovative approaches to increase ocean literacy (merging “arts & sciences”). |
| npj ocean sustainability: Adopción de la inteligencia artificial y tecnologías digitales en la educación superior, Volumen 2 Jesuan Adalberto Sepúlveda Rodríguez, Raquel Itzel Molina Rodríguez, Patricia Avitia Carlos, 2025-03-10 Este segundo volumen ofrece una mirada crítica y propositiva sobre la integración de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en el ámbito universitario. Más allá de exponer los desafíos y oportunidades que representa, la obra invita a una reflexión profunda sobre su implementación ética y efectiva en los procesos educativos. Asimismo, lejos de limitarse a un análisis teórico, los autores proponen soluciones concretas para integrar esta tecnología. En tal sentido, esta obra constituye una contribución valiosa para docentes, investigadores y tomadores de decisiones que buscan comprender y aprovechar el potencial de la IA en la educación superior. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Oceans and Human Health Lora Fleming, Lota B. Alcantara Creencia, William H. Gerwick, Hong Ching Goh, Matthew O. Gribble, Bruce Maycock, Helena Solo-Gabriele, 2023-07-14 Oceans and Human Health: Opportunities and Impacts, Second Edition explores the inextricably interconnected and complex relationship between oceans and humans. Through the lens of the expanding oceans and human health meta-discipline, this work examines the many invaluable ecosystem services offered by oceans as well as the global anthropogenic impacts, and explores the associated risks and benefits to human health. Written and edited by an interdisciplinary team of experts, the book features international perspectives on the resources available to address these benefits and risks, including enhanced research, policy, and community engagement. The book concludes by examining the future of ocean stewardship and how global populations can unite to nurture and promote our life-enhancing relationship with oceans. This is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, communities, and industry specialists in marine sciences, public health, and international policy. - Addresses benefits, opportunities, risks, and impacts resulting from the relationship between oceans and humans, informed by more than 100 international authors - Identifies and links necessary tools to relevant disciplines for action, and provides illustrative international case studies - Covers scientific, socioeconomic, political, and ethical analyses behind the latest ocean and human health research - Provides study questions and horizon scans at the end of each chapter to encourage individual thought and action, offering a resource for course instructors, students, and communities |
| npj ocean sustainability: Coral Reefs: Tourism, Conservation and Management Bruce Prideaux, Anja Pabel, 2018-08-30 Coral reefs are an important tourism resource for many coastal and island destinations and generate a range of benefits to their local communities, including as a food source, income from tourism, employment and recreational opportunities. However, coral reefs are under increasing threat from climate change and related impacts such as coral bleaching and ocean acidification. Other anthropogenic stresses include over-fishing, anchor damage, coastal development, agricultural run-off, sedimentation and coral mining. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to review these issues as they relate to the sustainable management of coral reef tourism destinations. It incorporates coral reef science, management, conservation and tourism perspectives and takes a global perspective of coral reef tourism issues covering many of the world’s most significant coral reef destinations. These include the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef in Australia, the Red Sea, Pacific Islands, South East Asia, the Maldives, the Caribbean islands, Florida Keys and Brazil. Specific issues addressed include climate change, pollution threats, fishing, island tourism, scuba diving, marine wildlife, governance, sustainability, conservation and community resilience. The book also issues a call for more thoughtful development of coral reef experiences where the ecological needs of coral reefs are placed ahead of the economic desires of the tourism industry. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Encyclopedia of Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment , 2024-08-09 Encyclopedia of Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Four Volume Set comprehensively covers all renewable energy resources, including wind, solar, hydro, biomass, geothermal energy, and nuclear power, to name a few. In addition to covering the breadth of renewable energy resources at a fundamental level, this encyclopedia delves into the utilization and ideal applications of each resource and assesses them from environmental, economic, and policy standpoints. This book will serve as an ideal introduction to any renewable energy source for students, while also allowing them to learn about a topic in more depth and explore related topics, all in a single resource.Instructors, researchers, and industry professionals will also benefit from this comprehensive reference. - Covers all renewable energy technologies in one comprehensive resource - Details renewable energies' processes, from production to utilization in a single encyclopedia - Organizes topics into concise, consistently formatted chapters, perfect for readers who are new to the field - Assesses economic challenges faced to implement each type of renewable energy - Addresses the challenges of replacing fossil fuels with renewables and covers the environmental impacts of each renewable energy |
| npj ocean sustainability: Wind Energy Storage and Conversion Inamuddin, Tariq Altalhi, Mohammad Luqman, 2024-06-26 This book provides a comprehensive guide to the benefits and developments of wind energy, including energy storage and conversion methods, making it a must-read for those interested in sustainable energy. By going through this book, one can learn more about the usefulness of adopting renewable energies, particularly in light of the widespread use of wind-based devices. Here, we present an in-depth presentation of several developments in wind technological systems, focusing on applications and operational approaches. With the depletion of fossil fuel-based energy resources, the development of alternative sources of energy is becoming extremely crucial. Meanwhile, the planet is on the brink of an energy disaster due to the rapidly rising global need for energy. Additionally, the widespread usage of fossil fuel-based energy resources is aggravating global warming and harming the environment. However, there are reliable and eco-friendly substitutes to fossil fuels, for example wind and many other sustainable energies. Considering its low operational costs and easy accessibility, wind is among the most cost-effective and efficient renewable energies. With the increased use of wind energy, the need for storage has become critical. In addition to various storage procedures, fuel cells and batteries are two primary sources of compensation for RE systems. The wind technological system is on the cusp of development, but numerous improvements are required to make this technology overall cost-efficient. In this book, various energy storage and conversion methods for wind power applications are explored. Additionally, this work covers the costs associated with electrical output in wind-powered power plants as well as the financial and environmental plans that describe the installation of wind technology systems. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Integrated Coastal Resilience C. Reid Nichols, Lynn Donelson Wright, Gary Zarillo, 2024-09-04 The potential for natural hazards and vulnerability to these threats varies from community to community. Adaptation will require ongoing monitoring of the natural and built-up environments and the development of policies, structures, and approaches to ensure resilient communities. Resilient approaches involve assessing risk and vulnerability, identifying solutions to reduce risks, implementing viable solutions, and assessment. Owing to past damages from extreme weather, countries around the world are making significant investments in coastal infrastructure that will reduce risks from disasters that are exacerbated by climatic changes. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Management of Marine Protected Areas Paul D. Goriup, 2017-01-17 With the health of the world’s oceans threatened as never before, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vitally important role in protecting marine and coastal habitats. Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective draws on the results of a major EU-sponsored research project related to the establishment of networks of MPAs in the Mediterranean and Black Seas that transpired from February 2011 to January 2016. Featuring contributions by leading university- and national research institute-based scientists, chapters utilize the latest research data and developments in marine conservation policy to explore issues related to ways in which networks of MPAs may amplify the effectiveness and conservation benefits of individual areas within them. Topics addressed include the broader socio-economic impacts of MPAs in the Mediterranean and Black Seas; the use of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) to resolve conflicts between marine resource use and protection; special protection measures under the EU’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD); ecological value assessments in the Black Sea; the Ecosystem Approach (EA) for managing marine ecosystems; MPAs along Turkey’s Black Sea coast; MPAs and offshore wind farms; and managing and monitoring MPA networks within and between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. Timely and important, Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective offers invaluable insights into the role of MPAs in preserving the welfare and long-term viability of our world’s oceans. |
| npj ocean sustainability: Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections Rao Kotamarthi, Katharine Hayhoe, Linda O. Mearns, Donald Wuebbles, Jennifer Jacobs, Jennifer Jurado, 2021-02-11 Downscaling is a widely used technique for translating information from large-scale climate models to the spatial and temporal scales needed to assess local and regional climate impacts, vulnerability, risk and resilience. This book is a comprehensive guide to the downscaling techniques used for climate data. A general introduction of the science of climate modeling is followed by a discussion of techniques, models and methodologies used for producing downscaled projections, and the advantages, disadvantages and uncertainties of each. The book provides detailed information on dynamic and statistical downscaling techniques in non-technical language, as well as recommendations for selecting suitable downscaled datasets for different applications. The use of downscaled climate data in national and international assessments is also discussed using global examples. This is a practical guide for graduate students and researchers working on climate impacts and adaptation, as well as for policy makers and practitioners interested in climate risk and resilience. |
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