Towards a Global LME Sustainability-Science Knowledge Network

Suzanne Lawrence

Workshop:

Semantics of Sustainability in the CCLME

Oregon State UniversitySeptember 7-8, 2011

Overview of Presentation

Define:Thinking Inside the Box – New PartnershipsA Global LME Sustainability Science Knowledge NetworkThinking Outside the Box – New Opportunities

Discuss:The Way ForwardPotential Partnering Events

Thinking INSIDE the Box

New Partnerships for the CCLME

What IS the Box?

Box = The Human Networks Associated With:

LME GovernanceLME Science, Synthesis, Assessments

LME (Sustainable) ManagementLME Knowledge Structure / Informatics

WHO is inside the Box?

Who = The Human Networks Associated with:

New ICSU Earth Systems Sustainability InitiativeNew ICES LME Best Practices Working Group

NGO Conservation Science CommunityGEF-IW LME Community of Practice Initiative

UNESCO-IOC CMSP and EBM InitiativesOthers

What Does The Box

Look Like?

Towards a Global LME Sustainability-Science Knowledge Network

What is an LME-Based Sustainability-Science 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

East Bering SeaGulf of AlaskaCalifornia CurrentGulf of CaliforniaGulf of MexicoSoutheast U.S. Continental ShelfNortheast U.S. Continental ShelfScotian ShelfNewfoundland-Labrador ShelfInsular Pacific-Hawaiian Pacific Central-American Coastal Caribbean SeaHumboldt CurrentPatagonian ShelfSouth Brazil ShelfEast Brazil ShelfNorth Brazil ShelfWest Greenland ShelfEast Greenland ShelfBarents Sea

Norwegian ShelfNorth SeaBaltic SeaCeltic-Biscay ShelfIberian Coastal Mediterranean SeaCanary CurrentGuinea CurrentBenguela CurrentAgulhas CurrentSomali Coastal CurrentArabian SeaRed SeaBay of BengalGulf of ThailandSouth China SeaSulu-Celebes SeaIndonesian SeaNorth Australian ShelfNortheast Australian Shelf/Great Barrier ReefEast-Central Australian ShelfSoutheast Australian Shelf

Southwest Australian ShelfWest-Central Australian ShelfNorthwest Australian ShelfNew Zealand ShelfEast China SeaYellow SeaKuroshio CurrentSea of JapanOyashio CurrentSea of OkhotskWest Bering SeaChukchi SeaBeaufort SeaEast Siberian SeaLaptev SeaKara SeaIceland ShelfFaroe Plateau AntarcticaBlack SeaHudson BayArctic Ocean

The LME Network - 64 LMEs of the World

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 human-environment 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 issuesCoordination 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 StructureDiscipline-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 StructureScience-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 FORPROACTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN TRANSITIONS UNDERWAY

ICSU = ESSIICES = WGLMEBP

GEF-IW LME = UNDP + UNESCO-IOCUS National Ocean Council LME Regional Governance

NSF

New OpportunitiesProposed 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/earth-system-research-for-global-sustainability/

ICES Working Group LME Best Practices: http://ices-usa.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

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

The SEES initiative supports:

New Opportunities NSF SEES Initiative

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

Central to the proposition is a partnership between:

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, trans-disciplinary stewardship across multiple scales

DiscussionThe Way Forward

Partnership Events and Funding Proposals