Beneath the surface of the First World Ocean Assessment: An investigation into the global process’ support for sustainable development

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorFawkes, Kyle William
dc.contributor.authorCummins, Valerie
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-23T03:31:03Z
dc.date.available2019-10-23T03:31:03Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-15
dc.description.abstractThe United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals have articulated sustainable development requirements at the international level. SDG14: life below water, has in particular, provided a future pathway for sustainable development of the ocean environment. With the establishment of this global perspective has come a renewed emphasis on the need for global ocean knowledge production. The 2015 First World Ocean Assessment (FWOA), which was produced by the first cycle of the United Nations’ Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socio-economic Aspects, is widely viewed as a primary tool to guiding action on SDG14. This research investigates how effective the FWOA has been at supporting these efforts toward sustainable development of the ocean environment. We use a combination of approaches, including document mining, an internationally distributed survey and semi-structured interviews to better understand the impact of the FWOA as well as the interrelated functioning of the Regular Process’ first cycle. While the FWOA was successful in compiling well accepted and credible ocean information, it was unable to generate the impact on sustainable ocean management activities that had originally been expected of it. Funding restrictions, participation issues and political anxieties seemed to derail the first cycle of the Regular Process from initial recommendations and directed the process into unorthodox operations and substantial political control. With the Second World Ocean Assessment (SWOA) well underway, it is imperative that trust is built and social learning is encouraged between participants in the Regular Process.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid612en
dc.identifier.citationFawkes, K. W. and Cummins, V. (2019) 'Beneath the Surface of the First World Ocean Assessment: An Investigation Into the Global Process’ Support for Sustainable Development', Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 612. (14pp.) DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00612en
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmars.2019.00612en
dc.identifier.eissn2296-7745
dc.identifier.endpage14en
dc.identifier.journaltitleFrontiers in Marine Scienceen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8809
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00612/full
dc.rights©2019 Fawkes and Cummins. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectGlobal environmental assessments (GEA)en
dc.subjectUnited Nations' regular processen
dc.subjectMarine governanceen
dc.subjectSustainable development goal 14 (SDG14)en
dc.subjectFirst World Ocean Assessmenten
dc.titleBeneath the surface of the First World Ocean Assessment: An investigation into the global process’ support for sustainable developmenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Thumbnail Image
Name:
fmars-06-00612.pdf
Size:
3.37 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published version
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Data_Sheet_1_Beneath the Surface of the First World Ocean Assessment_ An Investigation Into the Global Process’ Support for Sustainable Development.pdf
Size:
106.22 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Supplementary file 1
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Geography - Journal Articles
Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences - Journal Articles
Environmental Research Institute - Journal Articles