Towards a Global LME
Sustainability-Science
Knowledge Network
Suzanne Lawrence
Workshop:
Semantics of Sustainability in the CCLME
Oregon State University
September 7-8, 2011
Overview of Presentation
Define:
Thinking Inside the Box – New Partnerships
A Global LME Sustainability Science Knowledge Network
Thinking Outside the Box – New Opportunities
Discuss:
The Way Forward
Potential Partnering Events
Thinking
INSIDE
the Box
New Partnerships
for the CCLME
What IS the Box?
Box = The Human Networks Associated With:
LME Governance
LME Science, Synthesis, Assessments
LME (Sustainable) Management
LME Knowledge Structure / Informatics
WHO is inside the Box?
Who = The Human Networks Associated with:
New ICSU Earth Systems Sustainability Initiative
New ICES LME Best Practices Working Group
NGO Conservation Science Community
GEF-IW LME Community of Practice Initiative
UNESCO-IOC CMSP and EBM Initiatives
Others
What Does
The Box
Look Like?
Towards a Global LME Sustainability-Science
Knowledge Network
What is an LME-Based SustainabilityScience Knowledge Network?
What is a
Large Marine Ecosystem?
Large Marine Ecosystems Are:
Regions of the world's oceans characterized by distinct bathymetry, hydrography,
productivity, and trophically dependent populations.
Developed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
A tool for enabling sustainable ecosystem-based management in ecologically
bounded transnational areas
Threats to LMEs require coordinated actions by governments and civil society
LMEs produce 95% of the world's annual marine fishery biomass yields
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_marine_ecosystem
The LME Network - 64 LMEs of the World
East Bering Sea
Gulf of Alaska
California Current
Gulf of California
Gulf of Mexico
Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Scotian Shelf
Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf
Insular PacificHawaiian Pacific
Central-American
Coastal Caribbean Sea
Humboldt Current
Patagonian Shelf
South Brazil Shelf
East Brazil Shelf
North Brazil Shelf
West Greenland Shelf
East Greenland Shelf
Barents Sea
Norwegian Shelf
North Sea
Baltic Sea
Celtic-Biscay Shelf
Iberian Coastal Mediterranean
Sea
Canary Current
Guinea Current
Benguela Current
Agulhas Current
Somali Coastal Current
Arabian Sea
Red Sea
Bay of Bengal
Gulf of Thailand
South China Sea
Sulu-Celebes Sea
Indonesian Sea
North Australian Shelf
Northeast Australian Shelf/Great
Barrier Reef
East-Central Australian Shelf
Southeast Australian Shelf
Southwest Australian Shelf
West-Central Australian Shelf
Northwest Australian Shelf
New Zealand Shelf
East China Sea
Yellow Sea
Kuroshio Current
Sea of Japan
Oyashio Current
Sea of Okhotsk
West Bering Sea
Chukchi Sea
Beaufort Sea
East Siberian Sea
Laptev Sea
Kara Sea
Iceland Shelf
Faroe Plateau Antarctica
Black Sea
Hudson Bay
Arctic Ocean
What is
Sustainability
Science?
Sustainability Science
is
Problem Driven
Research
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_science)
What are the Origins of
Sustainability Science?
This new field of science was officially introduced
with a "Birth Statement" at the World Congress,
"Challenges of a Changing Earth 2001”, in
Amsterdam organized by:
International Council for Science (ICSU)
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
Environmental Change (IHDP)
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
What is the Goal of Sustainability
Science?
to advance basic understanding of the dynamics of humanenvironment systems
to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of
practical interventions that promote sustainability in
particular places and contexts
to improve linkages between relevant research and
innovation communities on the one hand, and relevant
policy and management communities on the other
What are the broad objectives of
Sustainability Science?
Knowledge structuring of issues
Coordination of data
Interdisciplinary approaches
What is a knowledge network?
(Knowledge) Networks are a “combination of persons [or
organizations], usually dispersed over a number of geographically
separate sites, with appropriate communications technology.”
The purpose is to foster change in specific policies and practices to
support sustainable development.
A benefit of a knowledge network is that each member becomes
stronger. An underlying premise of a knowledge network is that the
whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
(http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2001/networks_strategic_intentions.pdf)
The Team Leaders: To Date
Oran Young, Earth Systems Governance
Hal Batchelder, Science / Synthesis / Assessment
Peter Fox, Knowledge Structure / Informatics
Suzanne Lawrence, Policy and Practice
Network Structure
Discipline-Based Best Practices Knowledge
Networks for:
LME Governance
(Framework for Sustainability Science)
Ecosystem Based Management
(Policy and Practice)
Science, Synthesis, Assessment
(Scenarios)
Knowledge Network
(Full Cycle Informatics)
Network Structure
Thematic Earth System-Based
Knowledge Networks for:
Upwelling Systems
High Latitude Systems
Coral Reef Systems
(What Else?)
Network Structure
Science-Based Knowledge Networks to include:
Basic Earth Systems Science / Global Change Research Community
(ICSU / ESSI)
Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Science Research Community
(ICES / PICES / NOAA, etc)
Conservation Science and Marine Conservation Research Community
(IUCN, TNC, WWF, CI, etc.)
International Science to Governance Capacity Building and Leaders
(UNESCO-IOC)
Regional Ocean Governance Practitioners and Managers
(GEF-IW LME, US NOC, CIRSO, WGCA, BCC, ASCLME etc.)
Thinking OUTSIDE the Box
=
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR
PROACTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN TRANSITIONS UNDERWAY
ICSU = ESSI
ICES = WGLMEBP
GEF-IW LME = UNDP + UNESCO-IOC
US National Ocean Council LME Regional Governance
NSF
New Opportunities
Proposed Organizational Partnerships
NOAA LMEs of the World Community of Practice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_marine_ecosystem
ICSU ESSI: http://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/projects-activities/earthsystem-research-for-global-sustainability/
ICES Working Group LME Best Practices: http://icesusa.noaa.gov/working_groups/SSGRSP/WGLMEBP.html
IOC CMSP / EBM: http://www.unesco-ioc-marinesp.be/msp_guide
Conservation Science Community LME efforts: TNC, WWF, CI, IUCN, etc.
Regional Network Affiliates: Such As Benguela Current Commission / West
Coast Governors Agreement
New Opportunities
Potential Funding Partners
IGFAGCR: http://www.igfagcr.org/
NSF SEES Initiative: http://www.nsf.gov/geo/sees/
Conservation Science Community Funders &
Foundations: Packard / Moore / etc.
Funders of Regional Networks; eg. Benguela Commission,
West Coast Governors, etc.
UNDP / GEF-IW LME CoP
New Opportunities
Potential Funding Partners
International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change
Research:
http://www.igfagcr.org/
New Opportunities
Potential Funding Partners
National Science Foundation Science
Engineering and Education for Sustainability
Initiative:
http://www.nsf.gov/geo/sees/
New Opportunities
NSF SEES Initiative
NSF SEES initiative is designed to: “focus on supporting
research that facilitates global community sustainability,
specifically through building connections between current
projects, creating new nodes of activity, and developing
personnel needed to solve sustainability issues.
New Opportunities
NSF SEES Initiative
The SEES initiative supports:
SEES RCN: Research Coordination Networks for Sustainability: Developing
infrastructure for a global research network
SEES PIRE: Community Building activity thru the Partnership for International
Research and Education
SEES CNH: Couples Natural and Human Systems - Advancing assessment activity
thru coupled natural and human systems
New Opportunities
NSF SEES Initiative
Central to the proposition is a partnership between:
A California Current Best Practices Network
The GEF-IW LME Community of Practice Network
IOC-UNESCO Capacity Building, MSP, and EBM Networks
ICES Working Group for LME Practices Network
ICSU ESSI + Earth Systems Governance Network
New Opportunities
Partnering Events
ASLO / AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting February
2012
Session: Governing Across Scales: Innovative Stewardship of Earth
Systems: “Creating a Global Large Marine Ecosystem
Knowledge Network.”
New Opportunities
Partnering Events
Planet Under Pressure Conference
March 2012 London
Session:
Toward a Sustainability Science
Knowledge Network of Marine
Ecosystems: achieving innovation, transdisciplinary stewardship across multiple
scales
Discussion
The Way Forward
Partnership Events and Funding Proposals