Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance

Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the diversity of ocean uses and threats, leading to the Anthropocene ocean: a place fraught with challenges for governance such as resource collapse, pollution, and changing sea levels and ocean chemistry. Here we review shifts in ocean governance regimes from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the first legal regime for the global ocean, to Sustainable Development Goal 14 and beyond. This second period represents a merging of growing international interest in the ocean as part of the global sustainable development agenda—characterized by a focus on knowledge, collaboration, and the formation of alliances between diverse actors and institutions of environmental governance. To conduct this review, we analyzed literature on changing actors, regimes, and institutional arrangements for ocean governance over time. We conclude with a summary of challenges and opportunities for future ocean governance.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Environment and Society

• Publication date

  2020-09-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Law, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3167/ares.2020.110102
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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