Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post‐COVID‐19

Autor: Joachim Claudet, Diva J. Amon, Lucy C. Woodall, PC Reid, Michelle L. Taylor, Lisa A. Levin, John M. Baxter, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Alex Rogers, Dan Laffoley, NF Andersen
Přispěvatelé: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement (CRIOBE), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), School of Biology [University of St Andrews], University of St Andrews [Scotland], The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK, Oregon State University (OSU), University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Essex, Department of Zoology [Oxford], University of York [York, UK], University of Exeter
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Aquatic Conservation
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Wiley, 2021, ⟨10.1002/aqc.3512⟩
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Wiley, 2020, pp.1-23. ⟨10.1002/aqc.3512⟩
ISSN: 1099-0755
1052-7613
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3512
Popis: The ocean is the linchpin supporting life on Earth, but it is in declining health due to an increasing footprint of human use and climate change. Despite notable successes in helping to protect the ocean, the scale of actions is simply not now meeting the overriding scale and nature of the ocean's problems that confront us.Moving into a post‐COVID‐19 world, new policy decisions will need to be made. Some, especially those developed prior to the pandemic, will require changes to their trajectories; others will emerge as a response to this global event. Reconnecting with nature, and specifically with the ocean, will take more than good intent and wishful thinking. Words, and how we express our connection to the ocean, clearly matter now more than ever before.The evolution of the ocean narrative, aimed at preserving and expanding options and opportunities for future generations and a healthier planet, is articulated around six themes: (1) all life is dependent on the ocean; (2) by harming the ocean, we harm ourselves; (3) by protecting the ocean, we protect ourselves; (4) humans, the ocean, biodiversity, and climate are inextricably linked; (5) ocean and climate action must be undertaken together; and (6) reversing ocean change needs action now.This narrative adopts a ‘One Health’ approach to protecting the ocean, addressing the whole Earth ocean system for better and more equitable social, cultural, economic, and environmental outcomes at its core. Speaking with one voice through a narrative that captures the latest science, concerns, and linkages to humanity is a precondition to action, by elevating humankind's understanding of our relationship with ‘planet Ocean’ and why it needs to become a central theme to everyone's lives. We have only one ocean, we must protect it, now. There is no ‘Ocean B’.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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