This timely Companion explores the opportunities and challenges of ocean governance within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Experts from around the world investigate pathways to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the ocean, specifically SDG 14 which recognises the importance of a healthy ocean for our planet”s future.
Examining legal, institutional, and organisational structures and processes, the Companion emphasises that achieving ocean sustainability necessitates overcoming intricate governance challenges at the intersection of regulating and managing human activities and conserving marine ecosystems. Combining scientific research and practical real-world experience, the Companion provides key knowledge-based analysis and recommendations targeted at increasing action toward a sustainable future.
The Elgar Companion to Ocean Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals is an essential resource for students and academics with an interest in ocean governance and policy across a variety of disciplines, including environmental studies, geography, marine social sciences, science and technology studies, political science and law. It is also a valuable guide for practitioners and policymakers involved in charting pathways towards meaningful sustainability transformations in ocean governance.
- Contents:
- Foreword xviii
- Ambassador Peter Thomson, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean
- Acknowledgements xx
- List of abbreviations xxi
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- 1. Governing the ocean for a sustainable future: The Elgar Companion to Ocean Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals 2
- Barbara Neumann, Daniela Diz and Ben Boteler
- PART II THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE OCEAN
- 2. Source-to-sea governance approaches for the prevention and reduction of marine pollution 24
- Judith van Leeuwen and Jessica Vandenberg
- 3. Conserving, protecting, and managing marine ecosystems 47
- Daniela Diz, Gaute Hanssen and David Johnson
- 4. Addressing the climate and ocean nexus 65
- Marine Lecerf, Loreley Picourt, Joachim Claudet and Anaïs Deprez
- 5. Sustainable fisheries management: critical reflection on SDG 14.4 and the ecosystem approach to fisheries 84
- Mariano Koen-Alonso and Daniela Diz
- 6. Building sustainable ocean economies for Small Island Developing States and least developed countries 105
- Louis Celliers, Riad Sultan, António Pinto Almeida, Corrine Almeida, Sylvanna Antat, Stuart Laing, Blandina Lugendo and Julius Francis Woiso
- 7. Advancing ocean knowledge, research, and data 129
- Jörn O. Schmidt
- 8. Implementing international law for the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean 147
- Catherine Blanchard and Malou Estier
- PART III IMPLEMENTING THE 2030 AGENDA FOR THE OCEAN
- 9. Implementation on the ground: making SDG 14 work for the ocean and people in sub-Saharan Africa 166
- Shannon Hampton
- 10. Partnerships and development cooperation: supporting implementation of SDG 14 at the international level 182
- Raimund Bleischwitz, Raymond Kwojori Ayilu and Achim Schlüter
- 11. Blue finance: financing for ocean conservation and sustainable use 207
- Stuart Laing and Angelique Pouponneau
- 12. Ocean conservation: using area-based measures to benefit nature and people 229
- Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Estradivari and Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson
- 13. Achieving the 2030 Agenda through marine spatial planning: a critical perspective 244
- Elena Gissi, Stefano Menegon, Andrea Barbanti, Catarina Frazão
- Santos, Lisa Wedding, Tundi Agardy and Emiliano Ramieri
- 14. Tides of knowledge: ocean knowledge co-creation at the science–society–policy ecotone 264
- Dylan McGarry, Elisa Morgera and Kerry Sink
- 15. Digitalisation of the ocean and ocean governance: digital twins of the ocean 281
- Ute Brönner, Ann-Christine Zinkann and Martin Visbeck
- PART IV GOVERNING THE OCEAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- 16. Towards more effective ocean governance: regional approaches and integrated governance 302
- Robin Mahon
- 17. Sustainable blue economy: critical reflections 323
- Jean-Baptiste Jouffray and Robert Blasiak
- 18. A legally-binding instrument for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction: closing the implementation gap through cooperation 343
- Ben Boteler and Daniela Diz
- 19. Deep seabed mining, the International Seabed Authority, and the Sustainable Development Goals 355
- Aline Jaeckel and Pradeep A. Singh
- 20. Marine carbon dioxide removal: an emerging topic for ocean governance and the sustainability agenda 373
- Barbara Neumann, Lina Röschel, Miranda Böttcher and Neil Craik
- 21. Life above, beyond, and with water: thinking SDG 14 critically for repoliticising ocean governance 396
- Vani Sreekanta and Kimberley Peters
- 22. Ocean equity for whom? Non-humans as ocean equity subjects 410
- Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki and Quentin Hanich
