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Ocean Literacy for Ocean Sustainability: Reflections From Australia
Ensuring a sustainable future for the global ocean requires meaningful dialogue and engagement with society. Around the world, efforts to engage and collaborate with society increasingly emphasise ocean literacy as a potential tool for engaging and ...
Rachel Kelly +21 more
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The ocean is a fundamental component of the Earth system, sustaining biodiversity, regulating climate, and supporting socio-economic stability. This chapter outlines the ecological, climatic, and socio-economic functions of the ocean, underscoring its importance for global sustainability.
Melissa Plail, Lu Liu
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Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector. [PDF]
AbstractA large sample of 1664 companies—69 directly working in the ocean economy—distributed across 19 industrial sectors was investigated to explore awareness and activation regarding direct and indirect pressures on the ocean, their responses to these pressures, and the disclosure tools used. We examined their accountability and disclosure practices
Sardá R +11 more
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Oceans of Conflict: Pathways to an Ocean Sustainability PACT [PDF]
Festering ocean conflict thwarts efforts to realize the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Ralph Tafon +3 more
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Financing a sustainable ocean economy [PDF]
AbstractThe ocean, which regulates climate and supports vital ecosystem services, is crucial to our Earth system and livelihoods. Yet, it is threatened by anthropogenic pressures and climate change. A healthy ocean that supports a sustainable ocean economy requires adequate financing vehicles that generate, invest, align, and account for financial ...
U. Rashid Sumaila +22 more
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Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy [PDF]
The rapidly evolving ocean economy, driven by human needs for food, energy, transportation and recreation, has led to unprecedented pressures on the ocean that are further amplified by climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution. The need for better governance of human activities in the ocean space has been widely recognized for years, and is ...
Jan-Gunnar Winther +12 more
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A transition to sustainable ocean governance [PDF]
AbstractHuman wellbeing relies on the Biosphere, including natural resources provided by ocean ecosystems. As multiple demands and stressors threaten the ocean, transformative change in ocean governance is required to maintain the contributions of the ocean to people. Here we illustrate how transition theory can be applied to ocean governance.
Tanya Brodie Rudolph +6 more
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The seven domains of action for a sustainable ocean [PDF]
The ocean strongly contributes to our well-being but is severely impacted by human activities. Here, I propose seven domains of action to structure our collective efforts toward a scientifically sound, just, and holistic governance of a sustainable ocean.
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The ocean is threatened by human activities, which undermine the health of its ecosystems. To overcome this scenario, there is a converging understanding that a more encompassing approach, such as Ecosystem-based Management (EBM), is essential to manage ...
Maila Guilhon +6 more
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Recent calls for an International Panel for Ocean Sustainability (IPOS) to provide consensus-based science advice for global ocean sustainability appeal to the successes of global science–policy platforms, specifically the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
Gerald G. Singh +4 more
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