The living infinite: Envisioning futures for transformed human-nature relationships on the high seas
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Date | 2023-07 | ||||||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
Author(s) | Pereira Laura M.1, 2, Ortuño Crespo Guillermo2, 3, Amon Diva J.4, 5, Badhe Renuka6, Bandeira Salomão7, Bengtsson Frida2, Boettcher Miranda8, 9, Carmine Gabrielle10, Cheung William W.L.11, Chibwe Bwalya2, Dunn Daniel12, Gasalla Maria A.13, Halouani Ghassen14, Johnson David E.15, 16, Jouffray Jean-Baptiste2, 17, Juri Silvana18, 19, Keys Patrick W.20, Lübker Hannah M.2, Merrie Andrew S.2, Obaidullah Farah21, Palacios-Abrantes Juliano11, Shannon Lynne J.22, Sumaila U. Rashid11, Superchi Edoardo2, Terry Naomi2, Wabnitz Colette C.C.11, 17, Yasuhara Moriaki23, 24, Zhou Wei25 | ||||||||||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 2 : Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden 3 : Keystone Ocean S.L., Spain 4 : SpeSeas, D’Abadie, Trinidad and Tobago 5 : Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, USA 6 : European Polar Board, NWO, The Hague, the Netherlands 7 : Department of Biological Sciences, Eduardo Mondlane Universidade, Mozambique 8 : German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany 9 : Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 10 : Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, USA 11 : Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Canada 12 : Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, Australia 13 : Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil 14 : IFREMER, Unité halieutique Manche-Mer du Nord Ifremer, France 15 : Global Ocean Biodiversity Inititive, UK 16 : School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK 17 : Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, USA 18 : School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 19 : SARAS Institute, Uruguay 20 : Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA 21 : Women4Oceans, the Netherlands 22 : Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa 23 : Swire Institute of Marine Science, Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, and Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 24 : State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 25 : Greenpeace East Asia, China |
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Source | Marine Policy (0308-597X) (Elsevier BV), 2023-07 , Vol. 153 , P. 105644 (17p.) | ||||||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105644 | ||||||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Keyword(s) | High seas, Transformation, Futures, Nature Futures Framework, Governance, Ocean | ||||||||||||||||
Abstract | We find ourselves at a critical crossroads for the future governance of the high seas, but the perceived remoteness of the global ocean creates a psychological barrier for people to engage with it. Given challenges of overexploitation, inequitable access and other sustainability and equity concerns, current ocean governance mechanisms are not fit-for-purpose. This decade offers opportunities for direct impact on ocean governance, however, triggering a global transformation on how we use and protect the half of our planet requires a concerted effort that is guided by shared values and principles across regions and sectors. The aim of the series of workshops outlined in this paper, was to undertake a futures thinking process that could use the Nature Futures Framework as a mechanism to bring more transformative energy into how humans conceptualise the high seas and therefore how we aim to govern the ocean. We found that engaging with the future through science fiction narratives allowed a more radical appreciation of what could be and infusing science with artistic elements can inspire audiences beyond academia. Thus, creative endeavours of co-production that promote and encourage imagination to address current challenges should be considered as important tools in the science-policy interface, also as a way to elicit empathetic responses. This workshop series was a first, and hopefully promising, step towards generating a more creative praxis in how we imagine and then act for a better future for the high seas. |
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