Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future
Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future
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DOI：
10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.015
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
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6
通讯作者：
Yates, Katherine L.
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作者：
McKinley, Emma;Acott, Tim;Yates, Katherine L.
海洋和沿海环境提供了人类赖以生存的广泛和必要的生态系统服务，但历史上一直缺乏将人的因素纳入海洋和沿海政策和管理。随着解决海洋和沿海环境面临的重大和多样化挑战的努力继续进行，近年来越来越多的人呼吁更多地考虑人，他们如何与海洋环境相互作用，以及由此产生的影响，以制定有效的政策和管理。事实上，近年来，人们对海洋社会科学研究、数据、证据和专业知识重要性的认识呈上升趋势。尽管人们越来越意识到社会科学对更广泛的海洋和沿海管理议程的价值，但将海洋社会科学有效和有意义地纳入研究和实践仍然是一项挑战。在这里，我们将这一全球挑战视为一个机会，将社区聚集在一起，制定一个前瞻性的国际研究议程，认识到多种方法和不同方法的作用，理解社会与海洋之间的关系，激励海洋社会科学及其他领域的研究和实践社区。此外，通过将这一日益活跃的群体聚集在一起，我们可以确定变化机制和途径，从而将海洋社会科学纳入全球海洋政策。本文借鉴了来自海洋社会科学学科的研究人员和实践者的观点，这些观点是通过2019年6月在MARE 2019会议上举行的专家研讨会汇集在一起的，代表了一系列地理区域和观点。通过研讨会，代表们确定了海洋社会科学社区持续发展的一些优先事项，包括提高全球海洋社会科学研究能力的必要性，培育包容和公平的海洋社会科学研究社区的重要性，以及网络在继续提高海洋社会科学数据和证据对全球海洋政策和管理的影响方面的作用。此外，讨论对现有知识差距和未来潜在的研究重点提供了宝贵的见解。最后，本文提出了国际和跨学科海洋社会科学议程的未来愿景和建议，呼吁从海洋科学和政策的各个方面对海洋社会科学进行协作和战略思考。至关重要的是，我们展示了社会科学需要如何融入海洋和沿海管理的各个方面，以便为我们面临的普遍环境挑战创造真正可持续的解决方案。
Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically been lacking. As efforts to address the substantial and diverse challenges facing marine and coastal environments continue, recent years have seen a growing call for greater consideration of people, how they interact with the marine environment, and the resultant implications for developing effective policy and management. Indeed, in recent times recognition of the importance of marine social science research, data, evidence and expertise has undergone an upward trajectory. Despite this growing level of awareness of the value of social science to the wider marine and coastal management agenda, effective and meaningful inclusion of marine social science into research and practice has remained a challenge. Here we approach this global challenge as an opportunity to bring the community together to set a forward-looking international research agenda, recognising the role of multiple approaches and diverse methods understanding the relationship between society and the sea, galvanising the research and practice community across marine social sciences and beyond. Furthermore, by bringing together this increasingly active community, we can identify mechanisms of change and pathways to enable inclusion of marine social sciences within global ocean policy. This paper draws on the views of researchers and practitioners from across the marine social science disciplines, brought together through an expert workshop held at the MARE 2019 conference (June 2019) and representing a range of geographical regions and perspectives. Through the workshop, delegates identified a number of priorities for the ongoing development of the marine social science community, including the need to improve capacity for marine social science research globally, the importance of nurturing an inclusive and equitable marine social science research community and the role of networks to continue to raise the profile of marine social science data and evidence for global ocean policy and management. Additionally, the discussions provided valuable insight into existing knowledge gaps and potential research priorities for the future. Finally, the paper presents a future vision and recommendations for an international and interdisciplinary marine social science agenda, calling for collaborative and strategic thinking on marine social sciences from across the marine science and policy interface. Critically, we show how social science needs to be embedded in all aspects of marine and coastal management in order to create truly sustainable solutions to the pervasive environmental challenges we face.