OceanGov Virtual Lecture

Our joint project with the Virtual Academy of Sustaina-bility at University Bremen in creating an online MA-level course on Ocean Governance for Sustainability is taking shape. Building around the core areas of our six working groups, a first lecture has already been canned and further filming is planned to continue starting in No-vember. We are very excited about this project and will keep you posted on further developments.

Future Earth Coasts – On the Move!

The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), under the lead of its scientific director, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal, has successfully applied to host the renowned International Project Office (IPO) consortium of Future Earth Coasts (FEC). For the past four years, the office has been managed at MaREI, Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy at Uni-versity College Cork, Ireland by Martin Le Tissier (WG 1).

Starting in January 2019, ZMT will be the leading part-ner in the distributed secretariat of FEC for an initial

period of three years. In cooperation with regional partners on all continents, the IPO will substantially contribute to the building of an interna-tional science space with a particular focus on coastal challenges.

The consortium comprises the following institutions:

• Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

• State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Re-search (SKLEC) & Key Laboratory of Coastal Envi-ronmental Processes and Ecological - Remediation (KLCEPER), Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, China

• Southern Cross University, Australia• University of Maryland, Center for Environmental

Science Integration and Application Network (UM-CES IAN), USA

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA

European COST Action “Ocean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges, Options and the Role of Science” Newsletter № 8 / October 2018

Highlights

ContentHighlights .................................................................1Publications ..............................................................2Conferences/Workshops .........................................3Lectures/Presentations/Panels ................................5

New Members .........................................................6New Projects ...........................................................7Jobs & Opportunities ...............................................7Additional Information of Interest ...........................8

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Gehrig, S., Schlüter, A. & Jiddawi, N.S. (2018): Identities: The role of village and occupational group for small-scale fishers’ perceptions on environment and govern-ance. Marine Policy 96, 100-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.mar-pol.2018.06.017.

Gjerde, K., Boteler, B., Durussel, C., Rochette, J., Ung-er, S. & Wright‚ G. (2018): Conservation and Sustain-able Use of Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond Na-tional Jurisdiction: Options for Underpinning a Strong Global BBNJ Agreement through Regional and Sectoral Governance. STRONG High Seas Project. DOI: 10.2312/iass.2018.015.

Havice, E. & Campling, L. (2018): Corporate Dynamics in the Shelf-stable Tuna Industry. Honiara: Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency.

Hornidge, A.-K. (2018): A Research Vessel. Heteroto-pia, Boundary Place and Pluriverse of Epistemes. In: Poferl, A. & Pfadenhauer, M. [Ed.] Wissensrelationen. Beiträge und Debatten zum 2. Sektionskongress der Wissenssoziologie. Weinheim: Betz & Juventa. ISBN: 9783779949831.

Keller, R., Hornidge, A.-K. & Schünemann, W. [Ed.] (2018): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Dis-course. Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-making. Oxon & New York: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138048720.

McKinley, E., Potts, T., Hattam, C., Germond-Duret, C., Hopkins, C. & Aponte, H. (2018): Charting the course for a blue economy in Peru: a research agenda. Environ-ment, Development and Sustainability. DOI: 10.1007/s10668-018-0133-z.

Neumann, B., Unger, S. & Visbeck, M. (2018): Die Ozeane im Kontext der 2030-Agenda. Vereinte Na-tionen: Zeitschrift für die Vereinten Nationen und ihre Sonderorganisationen 4, 147-153.

Alff, H. & Hornidge, A.-K. (2018, forthcoming): Making a Living from Everyday Contradictions. Water Manage-ment and Cross-border Trade in post-Soviet Central Asia. In: Lossau, J., Schmidt-Brücken, D. & Warnke, I.H. [Ed.] Spaces of Dissension: Towards a New Perspective on Contradiction. Cham: Springer.

Alt, M., Gallier, C., Schlüter, A., Nelson, K. & Ang-graini, E. (2018): Giving to versus Taking from In-and Out-Group Members. Games 9(3), 57. DOI: 10.3390/g9030057.

Belschner, T., Ferretti, J., Strehlow, H.v., Kraak, S., Döring, R., Kraus, G., Kempf, A. & Zimmermann, C. (2018, in print): Evaluating fisheries systems: A com-prehensive analytical framework and its application to the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy. Fish and Fisheries 2018. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12325.

Campling, L. & Colás, A. (2018): Capitalism and the sea: Sovereignty, territory and appropriation in the global ocean. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(4), 776-794. DOI: 10.1177/0263775817737319.

Campling, L. & Havice, E. (2018): The Global Environ-mental Politics and Political Economy of Seafood Systems. Global Environmental Politics 18(2), 72-92. DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00453.

Christiansen, S., Ginzky, H., Singh, P. & Thiele, T. (2018): The International Seabed – The Common Heritage of Mankind. IASS Policy Brief 2 2018. DOI: 10.2312/iass.2018.012.

Del Valle, I. & Astorkiza, K. (2018, forthcoming): Bio-eco-nomic Diversity Dynamics of a Marine Ecosystem. Applied Economics. DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1527459.

Ertör, I. & Ortega-Cerda, M. (2018): The expansion of in-tensive marine aquaculture in Turkey: The next-to-last commodity frontier? The Journal of Agrarian Change, 1-24. DOI: 10.1111/joac.12283.

Publications

Delivered by ZMT, the FEC IPO will serve as a central hub that also seeks to facilitate trans-regional cooperation as well as the coordination and management of diverse stakeholder networks around issues of concern to global oceans and coasts – including scientists, governmental, economic and civil society actors.

OceanGov sends their best wishes for a good start at new shores!

6th OceanGov MC Meeting via gotomeeting.comPlease be reminded about our 6th (virtual) MC Meeting, taking place on December 17, 2018, 11:00 – 13:00 hrs (CET) via gotomeeting.com. We are looking forward to further discuss our Action´s endeavours, plans, and re-sults. Please mark your calendars! Further information on the usage of gotomeeting.com will be circulated via email prior to the meeting.

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Workshop: Regionalisation of the Common Fisheries Policy – Options for Reform

Date: July 03, 2018Location: Brussels, Belgium

STRONG High Seas Workshop: Technological tools for Monitoring, Control and Surveil-lance in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Date: July 10, 2018Location: Paris, FranceLink: https://www.prog-ocean.org/workshop-re-

sults-technological-tools-for-mcs-in-abnj/

ECPR – European Consortium for Political Research Conference 2018

Date: August 22 – 25, 2018Location: Hamburg, GermanyLink: http://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx-

?EventID=115

Comparative Implementation of the SDGs in the Regional Seas

Date: August 28, 2018Location: Potsdam, GermanyLink: https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx-

?PanelID=7973&EventID=115

Training and capacity-building interdisciplinary session: Tropical MSP

summer school

Date: September 3 – 7, 2018Location: Brest, FranceLink: https://mspsummerschool.sciencesconf.org/

Conferences/ WorkshopsPast

Novak, T., Godrijan, G., Maric Pfannkuchen, D., Djakovac, T., Mlakar, M., Baricevic, A., Smodlaka Tankovic, M. & Gašparovic, B. (2018): Enhanced dissolved lipid pro-duction as a response to the sea surface warming. Jour-nal of Marine Systems 180, 289-298. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.01.006.

Partelow, S. & Nelson, K. (2018): Social Networks, Col-lective Action and the Evolution of Governance for Sus-tainable Tourism on the Gili Islands, Indonesia. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.08.004.

Partelow, S., Glaser, M., Solano, S., Barboza, R. & Schlüter, A. (2018): Mangroves, Fishers, and Struggle for Adaptive Co-Management: Applying the Social-Eco-logical Systems Framework to Marine Extractive Re-search (RESEX) in Brazil. Ecology and Society 23 (3). DOI: 10.5751/ES-10269-230319.

Penca, J. (2018): European Plastics Strategy: What promise for global marine litter? Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.06.004.

Rohe, J., Schlüter, A. & Ferse, S.C.A. (2018): A gender lens on women’s harvesting activities and interactions with local marine governance in a South Pacific fish-ing community. Maritime Studies 106. DOI:10.1007/s40152-018-0106-8.

Said, A., Tzanopoulos, J. & MacMillan, D. (2018): The Contested Commons: The Failure of EU Fisher-ies Policy and Governance in the Mediterranean and the Crisis Enveloping the Small-Scale Fisheries of Malta. Frontiers in Marine Science 5(300). DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00300.

Schlüter, A., Partelow, S. & Fujitani, M. (2018): Coastal Systems in Transition: From a ‘Natural’ to an ‘Anthropogenically-Modified’ State. Ocean and Coastal Management 162, 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.oce-coaman.2018.05.001.

Schlüter, A., Partelow, S. & Fujitani, M. [Ed.] (2018): Coastal Systems in Transition. Ocean & Coastal Man-agement 162 (special issue), 1-202. ISSN: 0964-5691.

Senff, P., Partelow, S., Indriana, L.F., Buhari, N. & Kunz-mann, A. (2018): Improving Pond Aquaculture Produc-tion on Lombok, Indonesia. Aquaculture 497, 64-73.DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.07.027.

Shabtay, A., Portman, M.E. & Carmel, Y. (2018): Con-tributions of marine infrastructures to marine plan-ning and protected area networking. Aquatic Conser-vation: Marine Freshwater Ecosystems 28(3), 1-10. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2916.

Shabtay, A., Portman, M.E., Ofir, E., Carmel, Y. & Gal, G. (2018): Using ecological modelling in marine spa-tial planning to enhance ecosystem-based manage-ment. Marine Policy 95, 14-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.mar-pol.2018.06.018.

Teschner, N. (2018): The battle over the com-mons in port cities. Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2018.1506613.

Uscinowicz, G. & Szarafin, T. (2018): Short-term prog-nosis of development of barrier-type coasts (Southern Baltic Sea). Ocean & Coastal Management 165, 258-267. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.08.033. Access link available until November 1st, 2018: https://au-thors.elsevier.com/a/1Xj2r_LxeVzpok.

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Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Conference

Date: October 15 – 19, 2018Location: San Sebastian, SpainLink: http://www.espconference.org/eu2018/

wiki/279404/session-overview#.Ww-0kkx7G-DU

3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress

Date: October 22 – 26, 2018Location: Chiang Mai, ThailandLink: http://toobigtoignore.net/opportunity/3ws-

fc-announced/

Oceans Past VII, Tracing Human Interaction with Marine Ecosystems Through Deep Time:

Implications for Policy and Management

Date: October 22 – 26, 2018Location: Bremerhaven, GermanyLink: https://www.awi.de/forschung/

besondere-gruppen/wissensplat-tform-erde-und-umwelt/opp7/

Our Ocean Conference 2018 – Our Ocean, Our Legacy

Date: October 29 – 30, 2018Location: Bali, IndonesiaLink: http://ourocean2018.org/

Our COST Action OceanGov will be represented at the conference by the Action Chair Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

UBA/IASS International Expert Workshop: A Benefit sharing mechanism appropriate

for the Common Heritage of Mankind

Date: November 26 – 29, 2018Location: Potsdam, Germany

Participation by invitation only, but expressions of interest may be considered if space is available. Contact: sabine.christiansen [a] iass-potsdam.de.

Current & Upcoming

Roundtable Symposium: Translating Sea- Level Change in Urban Life: Policies, Practices and their Intersections in

Island Southeast Asia

Date: September 4 – 5, 2018Location: Jakarta, IndonesiaLink: https://www.emersa.org/events/

Adaptation in Motion. Linking Climate Change, Migration and Resilience

Date: September 5 – 7, 2018Location: Bonn, GermanyLink: http://transre.org/files/4115/2275/5167/Ad-

aptation_in_Motion_CfP.pdf

Society and the Sea Conference

Date: September 6 – 7, 2018Location: London, United KingdomLink: http://www.gre.ac.uk/society-and-the-sea

Workshop: Maritime Spatial Planning for Islands

Date: September 11, 2018Location: Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), SpainLink: https://www.msp-platform.eu/sites/default/

files/20180905_draft_agenda_msp_for_is-lands.pdf

ICES Annual Science Conference 2018

Date: September 24 – 27, 2018Location: Hamburg, GermanyLink: http://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/asc/

asc2018/Pages/default.aspx

Workshop: Towards an International Forum for Regional Ocean Governance

Date: October 8 – 9, 2018Location: Potsdam, GermanyLink: https://www.iass-potsdam.de/de/veran-

staltungen/towards-international-forum-re-gional-ocean-governance

A high-level international workshop was hosted by IASS in Potsdam from October 8 – 9, 2018 to further devel-op a concept for a “Marine Regions Forum” under the Partnership for Regional Ocean Governance (PROG). The Marine Regions Forum is envisaged to be a participatory, multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral dialogue platform where stakeholders from science, governments, region-al and international organisations, civil society, industry, and other relevant actors from different marine regions and sectors meet to develop new solutions for current

challenges of regional ocean governance. The First Marine Regions Forum will be held as an international conference from September 30 to October 2, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. This workshop was part of the participa-tory preparation process to co-create the Forum. Results of the meeting will be shared via the PROG website

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STRONG High Seas Webinar: Marine Biodi-versity Beyond National Jurisdiction in the Southeast Pacific and Southeast Atlantic

Date: August 16, 2018Link: https://www.prog-ocean.org/

strong-high-seas-webinar/#more-789

STRONG High Seas Capacity Building Work-shop: BBNJ Training for UN Negotiations

Date: September 3, 2018Location: New York, USALink: https://www.prog-ocean.org/

strong-high-seas-biodiversity-beyond-nation-al-jurisdiction-capacity-building-workshop

STRONG High Seas High Level Expert Meeting: Building a Strong High Seas Treaty – What is the Role for Regional

Ocean Governance?

Date: September 8, 2018Location: New York, USALink: https://www.prog-ocean.org/category/

strong-high-seas-news/

Policy Related Events

“Macaronesia, a region beyond Biogeography”. Presenta-tion at the ‘General Conference of the European Consor-tium for Political Research’. August 25, 2018. Hamburg, Germany. By: Mario Caña Varona & Helena Calado.

“Epistemic Mobilities. Following Moving Targets in Envi-ronmental Risk Discourses of Island Southeast Asia”. Talk at the International Symposium ‘Translating Sea-level Change in Urban Life’. September 5 – 6, 2018. Jakarta, Indonesia. By: Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

“Climate Change and Migration as Adaptation in Low- laying Islands: The Evidence from Maldives”. Presentation at the ‘Adaptation in Motion Linking. Climate Change, Migration and Resilience Conference’. September 6, 2018. Bonn, Germany. By: Robert Stojanov.

Workshop on developing the Marine Social Science Network at the ‘Society and the Sea Conference’. September, 6 – 7, 2018. London, United Kingdom. By: Achim Schlüter & Stefan Partelow.

“Islands context for MSP – an Introduction”. Part of the ‘Maritime Spacial Planning for Islands Workshop’. September 11, 2018. Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), Spain. By: Helena Calado.

“Umweltwissen Meer: Marine Wissenschaftskulturen in transdisziplinärer Perspektive”. Section-proposal for the annual meeting of the ‘Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT)’. September 12 – 14, 2018. Bochum, Germany. By: Anna-Katharina Hornidge & Christian Kehrt.

“Marine Wissenschaftsforschung – und ein Forschungs-schiff als Ort interdisziplinärer Wissensproduktion”. Presentation at ‘Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT)’, Panel ‘Umweltwissen Meer: Marine Wissenschaftskulturen in transdisziplinärer Perspek-tive‘. September 12 – 14, 2018. Bochum, Germany. By: Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

“Framing the Blue Economy: Development, Sustainabil-ity and Placelessness”. Presentation at the ‘3rd Meet-ing of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Research Network on Sustainability Transitions in the Coastal Zone’. September 13, 2018. Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. By: Celine Germond-Duret.

“A methodology for defining SMART objectives in mari-time spatial planning: a case study of the Macaronesia region”. Presentation at the ‘ICES Annual Science Confer-ence’. September 24 – 27, 2018. Hamburg, Germany. By: Mario Caña Varona, Helena Calado, Cláudia Hipólito & Marta Vergílio.

“Deep-Sea Marine Genetic Resources: review and analysis of existing MPAs management. Potential implica-tion for future MSP practices”. Presentation at the ‘ICES Annual Science Conference’. September 24 – 27, 2018. Hamburg, Germany. By: Elisabetta Menini, Cindy Lee Van Dover, Helena Calado, Roberto Danovaro & Elisabetta Manea.

“Transformation in coastal zones: Coping with global change”. Session OP4-01 at the ‘World Social Science Forum’. September 25 – 30, 2018. Fukuoka, Japan. Co-chairs: Silja Klepp & Barbara Neumann.

“The geological mapping of the southern Baltic coastal zone research program of the polish geological survey”. Invited speech at the ‘16th Polish - German Seminar: Monitoring and modeling of the Baltic Sea Coast evolu-tion’. September 27 – 28, 2018. Szczecin – Międzyzdroje, Poland. By: Grzegorz Uścinowicz.

Lectures/Presentations/Panels

Past

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Celine Germond-Duret

(Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)

Celine is a critical geographer with an interdisciplinary background in international relations and political sci-ence. Presently a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Liverpool John Moores Univer-sity, UK, she previously conducted research at the Centre for Sus-tainable Development, University of Central Lancashire, UK, worked on the interdisciplinary research project NCCR-Climate, University of Geneva, and acted as academ-ic coordinator for the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Environ-mental Diplomacy (University of Geneva and UNEP). Celine notably works on the human geography of the marine environment, blue growth, the (sustainable) development discourse, and Indigenous peoples. Her research appeared in Environment, Devel-opment and Sustainability; Marine Policy; Third World Quarterly; Sustainable Development; International Jour-nal on Minority and Group Rights. She is the author of a book on Development, the World Bank and Indigenous Peoples (Karthala Press, France).

Joana Sá Couto Lomba Batista

(CRIA – Center for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon)

Joana Sá Couto is a young anthropologist who has just finished her Master degree in Environmental Studies and

New Members

Current & Upcoming

“Strengthening the Legal and Institutional Framework of the Southeast Pacific and Southeast Atlantic: Focus on ABMTs”. Presentation at the ‘International Symposi-um on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdic-tion (BBNJ)’. October 16 – 17, 2018. Xiamen, China. By: Carole Durussel.

“Research Stations, Research Vessels. Bodily Communication in the Heart of Science”. Invited talk at the workshop ‘Kommunikation an den Grenzen – Gren-zen der Kommunikation’. November 15 – 16, 2018. Essen, Germany. By: Anna-Katharina Hornidge.

Sustainability, with a thesis focused on plastic pollution and fisheries. During the process Joana chose to learn the ways of an artisanal fisherman, learning and making fishing nets, helping the fishermen in the field in order to heighten acceptance and hence access to a predomi-nant male environment. While focusing on the relation-ship between man and nature, and man and material culture, she attempts to approach the problem of plastic pollution within this context. Currently, she is working on several articles stemming from ongoing fieldwork. As of plans for the future, she is preparing a research project to be initiated in 2019, in the context of the Doctoral Pro-gram of Climate Change and Sustainable Development.

Robert N. Farrugia

(Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Malta)

Research Interests and Lecturing:

• Renewable Energy• Wind Energy• Wind Resources• Onshore and Offshore Wind

Turbines• Solar Water Heating• Energy Storage• Marine RE Technologies

Profile: https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/robertnfarrugia

Vanessa Iglésias Amorim

(CRIA/ISCTE-IUL Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon University Institute)

Vanessa Iglésias Amorim is a PhD student in Anthropol-ogy at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), with a research fellowship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her pro-ject intends to analyse the way in which uncertainty becomes a constitutive element of every-day life, through an ethnographic study of two fishing communities in Portugal: Olhão and Setúbal. The goal is to understand how fishermen and their families respond to an unstable daily life and construct life projects under this conjunc-ture. Besides academic work, Vanessa has been working with fishers organisations and with an artistic project, on the dynamisation of cultural activities (newspapers, exhibitions, theatre), related with maritime themes.

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Launch of the Marine Social Science Network

On 6th and 7th of September the second Society and the Sea conference took place at the Greenwich Maritime Centre (University of Greenwich) with 200 participants. One of the highlights featuring at the conference was the launch of the Marine Social Science Network (MarSocSci) by the network leader Emma McKinley. The network is a knowledge exchange platform for social scientists while at the same time highlighting the important role that the Social Sciences play in addressing matters of marine and coastal management. The Network is meant to be a multidisciplinary community, fostering collaboration and dialogue between marine social and natural science, the arts and humanities. The launch fitted perfectly well into the framework of the Society and the Sea Conference with its aim on bridging the society-science gap and var-ious OceanGov members also presented their work on this occasion.

While OceanGov participant Martin Le Tissier (WG 1) is already part of the MarSocSci network, please get in touch with the network, if you are interested to join: http://www.marsocsci.net/.

MarSocSci is also on Twitter: @MarSocSci.

TEAM4SEAS – Bridging the gaps: An innovative and operational participatory platform to connect science, stakeholders and policy for successful maritime spatial

planning in Romania

This research project will develop and evaluate how the participatory approaches contribute to the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) directive implementation. To identify realistic and sustainable solutions and designs for MSP, the TEAM4SEAS project will adopt a participa-tory approach involving all stakeholders representing companies, authorities, researchers, locals, fishermen, NGOs, etc. The main aim is to illustrate how a web-GIS system can be applied as a sound basis for practically incorporating an ecosystem approach within maritime spatial planning initiatives. Key-benefits include effective data management, increased spatial understanding and the definition of conflicts across the Romanian Black Sea

New Projects

Annette Barthelt-Preis für Meeres-forschung 2019 (prize for marine research)

Deadline: 01 November 2018

The Annette Barthelt Foundation announces its call for the annual prize for young marine research. 6000€ will be awarded for a Master or PhD thesis in marine re-search, maritime technology and seafaring. Proposals are welcome to researchers up to 30 years of age. The work should be related to a research cruise and should have been finished up to 2 years ago.

More information on the website of the Anette Barthelt Foundation.

Call for Papers: International workshop on ‘Narratives and practices of environmental

justice’

The aim of this workshop, organised by the Institute of Geography at Kiel University, Kiel Marine Science (KMS) and the Enjust Network for Environmental Justice emerg-ing at Kiel University, is to advance ongoing debates on environmental and climate justice by focusing on narra-tives and associated practices, and to foster networking among scholars.

Main themes could include:• Narratives and discourses of environmental justice• Social movements, action frames and counter nar-

ratives

Jobs & Opportunities

region. On the other hand, the progress recently made in framing the MSP process together with the stakeholders’ involvement and the new advancement (supported by our team) related to MSP issues prepared the ground for the current project which is the first conceived as an in-novative and operational study to support spatially-based analyses of the Romanian Black Sea region. Moreover, our interdisciplinary approach will be conducted and presented in cordial ways that will increase stakeholder understanding of information generated thus supporting marine governance.

The project is funded by the government of Romanian, Ministry of Research and Innovation (UEFISCDI). Project period: May 2018 – April 2020. OceanGov members: Natașa Văidianu (project manager), Mădălina Ristea, Florin Tătui (University of Bucharest – CICADIT, Roma-nia). Budget: 100.000€.

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• Narratives for a just transition• Environmental justice: concepts and theory• Environmental justice in the coastal and marine

realm• Environmental justice and market-based conserva-

tion and restoration• Environmental justice and spatial planning including

marine spatial planning

For the workshop, papers are welcome that provide theory-based empirical case studies linked to these topics. Moreover, activists, planning and development practitioners are invited to present their insights on ongoing environmental and climate justice campaigns and attempts to consider the concept of environmental justice in international cooperation and spatial planning. Especially scholars and activists from the global South are welcome.

Abstracts of proposed papers (up to 400 words) may be submitted until October 31st, 2018 to: enjust [a] geographie.uni-kiel.de

The workshop will take place from June 6 – 8, 2019 at Kiel University, Germany

For further information please contact Jonas Hein (hein [a] geographie.uni-kiel.de) or refer to the full CfP on the website of the marine social sciences at Kiel University.

BlueMed Week in Barcelona

On October 23 – 25, 2018 the Union for the Mediterra-nean (UfM) will host the BLUEMED Week, a 3-days event dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea aiming at promoting the blue economy in the Basin through cooperation. That is the objective of the BLUEMED Initiative and its sup-porting CSA BLUEMED: working together for a healthy, safe and productive Mediterranean Sea and contributing to the creation of new ‘blue’ jobs, social well-being and a sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors through the implementation of the BLUEMED Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). More informa-tion on the website of the BlueMed Initiative.

News from the Partnership for Regional Ocean Governance (PROG)

PROG’s main aim is to identify and promote integrated regional models for cross sectoral oceans governance and to advance regional cooperation for the conservation and sustainable use of marine ecosystems and resources. Established as a platform at the science, policy, society interface, the partnership focuses on facilitating dialogue processes that foster greater regional cooperation and better integrated and coherent governance frameworks at regional and national levels. PROG distributes news regularly through their newsletter as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

Additional Information of Interest

Norderney and Baltrum, Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, Germany Photo by: Peter Prokosch, GRID Arendal, 2012

Background Information

Imprint

The subject of governance of oceanic systems and coastlines is moving into the center 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 short-comings. The COST Action on “Ocean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges, Options and the Role of Science” comprises a unique, transdisciplinary network of 27 countries with regional and international outreach.

The network aims to establish an integrative vision, and a series of approaches 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 differs 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 scien-tific output, crosscutting the natural and social sciences. Synergistic issue-driven working groups are created at a time when Europe is considering its role in global ocean governance, 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.

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