TM7 | Moving towards integrated evaluation approaches in support of ocean policy.

TM7

Moving towards integrated evaluation approaches in support of ocean policy.
Convener: David Reid | Co-convener: Furqan Asif, Sonia Batten, Mitsutaku Makino, Olivier Thebaud
Wed, 04 Jun, 12:45–13:45 (CEST)|Room 8
Wed, 12:45
The primary challenge in supporting enhanced and sustainable uses of marine ecosystems is to enable current and future growth in the blue economy while promoting the associated development of coastal livelihoods and fully considering the need for ecosystem protection. This challenge explicitly involves managing human impacts on the earth's marine and coastal systems, while also managing the feedback on coastal communities, industries, stakeholders, and civil society.

Addressing this challenge requires moving beyond the traditional areas of research that have been supporting ocean policy for decades, to develop the integrated evaluation of marine socio-ecological systems. Understanding these complex systems is a challenging new area of research that requires multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Such an integrated approach to marine systems is relatively new, as previous research efforts have often dealt primarily with single sectors.

The session will focus on recent ICES and PICES progress in response to the needs of their member science communities to address this challenge. Catalysed by the UN Decade, this has in particular led to the PICES/ICES initiative SmartNet, which aims to develop integrated assessment and integrated management approaches to support sustainable multiple ocean uses. Emphasis will be on the institutional, methodological and empirical challenges involved in developing such integrated approaches, and lessons learned to inform the future evolution of marine science and ocean policy. A key element will be the integration of wider-based knowledge systems than heretofore, including rights- and stake-holders, indigenous peoples, local ecological knowledge and civil society perspectives on ocean goods and services.

Given the crosscutting nature of its focus, the session will be of broad relevance to the OOCS themes. However, it will centrally inform topics identified under themes 3 (“Protection and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems to ensure sustainable and equitable management”), 7 (“Sustainability, equitability, and safety of ocean-based food systems” and 10 (“Vibrant science to inform and support ocean action”) of the OOSC.

Structure of the session : 

1/ Town Hall introduction:

M. Mitstutaku & O. Thébaud will give an introductory 5-minute presentation on behalf of the organizers, setting the scene for the Town Hall, building on the outcomes of the 2016 and 2024 Marine Social-Ecological Systems symposia.

2/ Perspectives from around the world:

We will have five 5-minute thought-provoking presentations by our invited speakers:

⮚          Sonia Batten (PICES): perspectives from the North Pacific

⮚          David Reid (ICES): Perspectives from the North-Atlantic

⮚          Beth Fulton (CSIRO), Perspectives from Oceania

⮚          Eddie Allison (WorldFish), International development perspective

⮚          Marta Ferraro (ICES ECR), Perspectives from Early Career Researchers

3/ Open discussion:

We will then hold a 30-minute discussion, open to the participants in the room, facilitated by the Town Hall chairs.

Speakers

  • Sonia Batten, North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Canada
  • David Reid, ICES, Denmark
  • Eddie Allison, WorldFish, Malaysia
  • Beth Fulton, CSIRO, Australia
  • Marta Ferraro, Marine Institute, Ireland
  • Mitsutaku Makino, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Furqan Asif, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Olivier Thebaud, Ifremer