Principles for transformative ocean governance

Lombard, Amanda T. and Clifford-Holmes, Jai and Goodall, Victoria and Snow, Bernadette and Truter, Hannah and Vrancken, Patrick and Jones, Peter J.S. and Cochrane, Kevern and Flannery, Wesley and Hicks, Christina and Gipperth, Lena and Allison, Edward H. and Diz, Daniela and Peters, Kimberley and Erinosho, Bolanle and Levin, Phillip and Holthus, Paul and Szephegyi, María Nube and Awad, Adnan and Golo, Harrison and Morgera, Elisa (2023) Principles for transformative ocean governance. Nature Sustainability, 6. 1587–1599. ISSN 2398-9629 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01210-9)

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Abstract

With a focus on oceans, we collaborated across ecological, social and legal disciplines to respond to the United Nations call for transformation in the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. We developed a set of 13 principles that strategically and critically connect transformative ocean research to transformative ocean governance (complementing the UN Decade for Ocean Science). We used a rigorous, iterative and transparent consensus-building approach to define the principles, which can interact in supporting, neutral or sometimes conflicting ways. We recommend that the principles could be applied as a comprehensive set and discuss how to learn from their interactions, particularly those that reveal hidden tensions. The principles can bring and keep together partnerships for innovative ocean action. This action must respond to the many calls to reform current ocean-use practices which are based on economic growth models that have perpetuated inequities and fuelled conflict and environmental decline.

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Lombard, Amanda T., Clifford-Holmes, Jai, Goodall, Victoria, Snow, Bernadette ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-4511, Truter, Hannah, Vrancken, Patrick, Jones, Peter J.S., Cochrane, Kevern, Flannery, Wesley, Hicks, Christina, Gipperth, Lena, Allison, Edward H., Diz, Daniela, Peters, Kimberley, Erinosho, Bolanle, Levin, Phillip, Holthus, Paul, Szephegyi, María Nube, Awad, Adnan, Golo, Harrison and Morgera, Elisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5234-8784;
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