Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices to Enable Interoperability in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

Autor: Jay Pearlman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Mark Bushnell, Claudia Delgado, Juliet Hermes, Emma Heslop, Cora Hörstmann, Kirsten Isensee, Johannes Karstensen, Arno Lambert, Ana Lara-Lopez, Frank Muller-Karger, Cristian Munoz Mas, Francoise Pearlman, Peter Pissierssens, Rachel Przeslawski, Pauline Simpson, Jordan van Stavel, Ramasamy Venkatesan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol 8 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2296-7745
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.619685
Popis: The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) challenges marine science to better inform and stimulate social and economic development while conserving marine ecosystems. To achieve these objectives, we must make our diverse methodologies more comparable and interoperable, expanding global participation and foster capacity development in ocean science through a new and coherent approach to best practice development. We present perspectives on this issue gleaned from the ongoing development of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). The OBPS is collaborating with individuals and programs around the world to transform the way ocean methodologies are managed, in strong alignment with the outcomes envisioned for the Ocean Decade. However, significant challenges remain, including: (1) the haphazard management of methodologies across their lifecycle, (2) the ambiguous endorsement of what is “best” and when and where one method may be applicable vs. another, and (3) the inconsistent access to methodological knowledge across disciplines and cultures. To help address these challenges, we recommend that sponsors and leaders in ocean science and education promote consistent documentation and convergence of methodologies to: create and improve context-dependent best practices; incorporate contextualized best practices into Ocean Decade Actions; clarify who endorses which method and why; create a global network of complementary ocean practices systems; and ensure broader consistency and flexibility in international capacity development.
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