Predicting Future Oceans: Sustainability of Ocean and Human Systems Amidst Global Environmental Change provides a synthesis of our knowledge of the future state of the oceans. The editors undertake the challenge of integrating diverse perspectives—from oceanography to anthropology—to exhibit the changes in ecological conditions and their socioeconomic implications. Each contributing author provides a novel perspective, with the book as a whole collating scholarly understandings of future oceans and coastal communities across the world. The diverse perspectives, syntheses and state-of-the-art natural and social sciences contributions are led by past and current research fellows and principal investigators of the Nereus Program network.
This includes members at 17 leading research institutes, addressing themes such as oceanography, biodiversity, fisheries, mariculture production, economics, pollution, public health and marine policy.
This book is a comprehensive resource for senior undergraduate and postgraduate readers studying social and natural science, as well as practitioners working in the field of natural resources management and marine conservation.
Key Features
- Provides a synthesis of our knowledge on the future state of the oceans
- Includes recommendations on how to move forwards
- Highlights key social aspects linked to ocean ecosystems, including health, equity and sovereignty
Section 1: Predicting future oceans
1. Rethinking oceans as coupled human-natural systems to achieve sustainability
Yoshitaka Ota and William Cheung
Section 2: Changing ocean systems
2. Synthesis: Changing ocean systems
Jorge Sarmiento and Charles Stock
3. Drivers of fisheries production in complex social-ecological systems
Chris McOwen, Tom Spencer and Mike Bithell
4. Changing Seasonality of the Sea: Past, Present, and Future
Rebecca G. Asch
5. Extreme climate events in the oceans
Thomas Lukas Frölicher
6. Pathways of methylmercury accumulation in a changing ocean
Colin Thackray and Elsie Sunderland
7. Building confidence in projections of future ocean capacity
Tyler Eddy
8. Coastal upwelling and climate change
Ryan Ross Rykaczewski
Section 3: Changing marine ecosystems and biodiversity
9. Sythesis: Changing marine ecosystems and biodiversity
Didier Gascuel and William Cheung
10. Current and future biogeography of marine exploited groups under climate change
Gabriel Reygondeau
11. The role of cyclical oscillations in species distributions shifts under climate change
Sarah Roberts
12. Changing biomass flows in marine ecosystems: From the past to the future
Hubert du Pontavice
13. Jellyfishes in a changing ocean
Natasha Henschke
14. Understanding fisheries using time series data: importance and opportunities emerging from models of bottom up forcing
Fernando González Taboada
15. The Sea Around Us as provider of global fisheries catch and related marine biodiversity data to the Nereus Program and civil society
Daniel Pauly and William Cheung
16. Life history of marine fishes and their implications for the future oceans
Colleen M. Petrik
Section 4: Changing fisheries and seafood supply
17. Synthesis: Changing fisheries and seafood supply
Laurie Chan, William Cheung and Elsie Sunderland
18. Projecting fishing effort dynamics and the economics of fishing in the 21st century under climate change
Vicky Wing Yee Lam
19. Prospect of mariculture under climate change
Muhammed A. Oyinlola
20. Tourist seafood consumption's role in tourism adaptation in Pacific Island Countries for coastal food security under climate change
Colette Wabnitz
21. Integrating environmental information into stock assessment models for fisheries management
Kisei Tanaka
22. The future landscape of the global seafood market
Oai Li Chen
23. Climate change adaptations and spatial fisheries management
Rebecca Selden and Malin L. Pinsky
24. Climate Change, Contaminants, and Country Food: Collaborating with Communities to Promote Food Security in the Arctic
Tiff-Annie Kenny
Section 5: Changing social world of the ocean
25. Synthesis: Changing social world of the oceans
Yoshitaka Ota and Larry Crowder
26. The relevance of human rights to socially responsible seafood
Lydia Teh
27. The impact of environmental change on small-scale fishing communities: Moving beyond adaptive capacity to community response
Larry Crowder
28. Coastal Indigenous Peoples in global ocean governance
Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor and Yoshitaka Ota
29. The role of corporate social responsibility for ocean sustainability
Wilf Swartz
30. Ocean policy on the water – incorporating fishermen’s perspectives
Julia Grace Mason
31. Traditional ecological knowledge in displacement and migration
Marjo Kristiina Vierros and Yoshitaka Ota
32. Can aspirations lead us to the oceans we want?
Gerald Singh
Section 6: Governance and well-being in changing oceans
33. Synthesis: The opportunities of changing ocean governance for sustainability
Henrik Österblom
34. A Blue Economy: Equitable, Sustainable, and Viable Development in the World’s Oceans
Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor
35. Exploring the knowns and unknowns of international fishery conflicts
Jessica Spijkers
36. The future of mangrove fishing communities
Rachel Seary
37. The last commons: (Re)constructing an ocean future
Katherine Seto and Brooke Campbell
38. New actors, new possibilities, new challenges - Non-state actor participation in global fisheries management
Matilda Tove Petersson
39. Climate change vulnerability and ocean governance
Robert Blasiak
Section 7: Ocean governance beyond boundaries
40. Synthesis: The opportunities of changing ocean governance for sustainability with Erik
Erik Molenaar
41. Conserving the great blue "beyond." Incorporating the dynamic and connected nature of the open ocean in the biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) negotiations
Daniel C. Dunn
42. Legitimacy as a resource for effective international marine management
Lisa Maria Dellmuth
43. Improving fisheries governance in a fragmented and decentralized world
Solène Alizée Guggisberg
44. The Trouble with Tunas: International Fisheries Science and Policy in an Uncertain Future
Andre Boustany
45. The road to implementing an ecosystem-based approach to high seas fisheries management
Guillermo Ortuno Crespo Ortuno Crespo
46. Ocean Pollution in an Era of Changing Oceans and Climate Change: Towards Ocean Conservation Solutions
Juan Jose Alava
47. Beyond prediction: Radical Ocean Futures– A science fiction prototyping approach to imagining our future oceans
Andrew Sean Merrie
Section 8: Conclusion
48. Future pathways for the oceans considering climate change and social equity
Yoshitaka Ota and William Cheung
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Scientists interested in marine ecology and governance, resource management, climate change and ocean-related fields. Secondary: Government practitioners in marine and coastal management, policy makers of local and regional government, and program officers of non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations engaged with marine conservation
