Journal of Oceanography and Marine Research
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From Coast to Coast - Keeping the Ocean Integrity through Articulated Governance Regimes

International Conference on Coastal Zones

May 16-18, 2016 Osaka, Japan

Yves Henocque

IFREMER (JAMSTEC; OPRI), France

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oceanography

Abstract :

Ocean is one but governance regimes are legions and uncoordinated. Any coastal zone management initiative needs to be put into context at the next larger scale and so on as a contribution to the regional seas and global ocean integrity. The other way around, any global vision needs to be rooted into regional, national and local implementation. More than 20 years ago, the first Rio conference on environment and development (1992), then comforted in Johannesburg (2002) and again in Rio (2012), gave us the framework and principles of action towards the construction of new forms of governance including catchment and coastal areas integrated management,together with the ecosystem approach principles of the Convention of Biological Diversity and, a bit later, the Reykjavik Declaration on Responsible Fisheries (2001). Since then, many initiatives, policies or programmes have been launched and carried out all around the world but it seems like these new forms of governance are better achieved at small scale and the closer one gets to shore. There are still few practical examples in offshore systems and even fewer in wider systems that couple nearshore and pelagic areas. These experiences will be reviewed and lessons drawn regarding best practices in scaling up management to scales appropriate to vast, interconnected systems through actual holistic, cross-sectoral, and truly integrated management.

Biography :

Email: yves.henocque@ifremer.fr