TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing capacity for transdisciplinary studies of changing ocean systems
AU - Renaud, Paul E.
AU - Belgrano, Andrea
AU - Dupont, Sam
AU - Boyd, Philip W.
AU - Collins, Sinead
AU - Blenckner, Thorsten
AU - Drexler, Michael
AU - Hall-Spencer, Jason M.
AU - Robinson, Carol
AU - Weber, Charlotte T.
AU - Vargas, Cristian A.
N1 - Funding Information: This paper is based on discussions within and among individuals from the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Projects \u201CChanging Ocean Biological Systems\u201D (COBS) and \u201CIntegrated Marine Biosphere Research\u201D (IMBeR) (US National Science Foundation grant OCE-1840868). Additional funding was provided by the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme project MARBEFES (grant agreement no 101060937, supporting PER and CTW). CAV was funded by the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO) and the Coastal Social-Ecological Millennium Institute (SECOS), under the codes ICN12_019-IMO and ICN2019_015, respectively. This work contributes to the IMBeR Innovation Challenge (IC4) and the ICES Working Group on Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services. The IAEA is grateful to the Government of the Principality of Monaco for support of its laboratories. We thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for comments that led to significant improvement of the manuscript.
PY - 2024/10/7
Y1 - 2024/10/7
N2 - Addressing global challenges such as climate change requires large-scale collective actions, but such actions are hindered by the complexity and scale of the problem and the uncertainty in the long-term benefit of short-term actions (Jagers et al., 2019). In addition to climate change, socio-ecological systems face the cumulative pressures associated with resource needs, technology development, industrial expansion, and area conflicts. In marine systems, this has been called “the blue acceleration” (Jouffray et al., 2020) and is referred to as “socio-ecological pressures” in this paper. These socio-ecological pressures reduce our ability to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals and meet the challenges of the UN Ocean Decade, and require integrating knowledge within a shared conceptual framework. For example, achieving sustainable growth must integrate ecological, socioeconomic, and governance perspectives on a larger scale by considering ecological impacts, ecosystem carrying capacities, economic trade-offs, social acceptability, and policy realities. This requires capacity development whereby actors unite to bridge disciplinary boundaries to meet challenges of complex systems.
AB - Addressing global challenges such as climate change requires large-scale collective actions, but such actions are hindered by the complexity and scale of the problem and the uncertainty in the long-term benefit of short-term actions (Jagers et al., 2019). In addition to climate change, socio-ecological systems face the cumulative pressures associated with resource needs, technology development, industrial expansion, and area conflicts. In marine systems, this has been called “the blue acceleration” (Jouffray et al., 2020) and is referred to as “socio-ecological pressures” in this paper. These socio-ecological pressures reduce our ability to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals and meet the challenges of the UN Ocean Decade, and require integrating knowledge within a shared conceptual framework. For example, achieving sustainable growth must integrate ecological, socioeconomic, and governance perspectives on a larger scale by considering ecological impacts, ecosystem carrying capacities, economic trade-offs, social acceptability, and policy realities. This requires capacity development whereby actors unite to bridge disciplinary boundaries to meet challenges of complex systems.
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U2 - 10.5670/oceanog.2025.113
DO - 10.5670/oceanog.2025.113
M3 - Article
SN - 1042-8275
VL - 38
JO - Oceanography
JF - Oceanography
IS - 1
ER -