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Learning from experience: what the emerging global marine assessment community can learn from the social processes of other global environmental assessments
Anthropocene Coasts, Vol.4(1), pp.87-114
27/08/2021
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Abstract
In recent decades, international assessments of the ocean have evolved from specialized, technical evaluations of the state of the marine environment to more integrated and thematically extensive science-policy platforms. As assessment programmes such as the UN Regular Process blossom on the global stage and subsume responsibility for tracking progress on sustainable development, there is a need to consider how their processes wield influence and effectively translate knowledge into action. In the present paper, we undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on global environmental assessments (GEAs) and extract key principles that can be applied to global assessments of the marine environment. We were particularly inspired to identify how social processes could be arranged to best distill, communicate, and produce actionable knowledge. While we look to the advice of experts in the literature, we highlight specific examples from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and the Global Environment Outlook (GEO). From this review, knowledge coproduction, multilevel collaboration, and futures thinking emerged as the dominant principles of influential and action-oriented assessments. We conclude the paper by contextualizing how these principles may be operationalized for Global Marine Assessments in the future.
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- Title
- Learning from experience: what the emerging global marine assessment community can learn from the social processes of other global environmental assessments
- Creators
- Kyle Fawkes - Future Earth CoastsSebastian Ferse - Future Earth CoastsAnja Scheffers - Future Earth CoastsValerie Cummins - Future Earth Coasts
- Publication Details
- Anthropocene Coasts, Vol.4(1), pp.87-114
- Publisher
- Canadian Science Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991012978825802368
- Copyright
- Copyright remains with the author(s) or their institution(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article