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Ocean regions in inter- and transnational cooperation

Polar bears on melting ice floes, coral bleaching and garbage patches are among the most popular images that visualise the profound anthropogenic changes that oceans and other marine areas are currently experiencing. At the same time, the strategic significance of oceans and their overall relevance is growing locally and globally: They act as climate regulators, source of nutrition and for livelihood security.

Since 1982, oceans are classified “common heritage of humankind” (United Nations Law of the Sea) but particularly the Paris Climate Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (both 2015) emphasise human effects on the sensitive, unique and complex ecosystems. Both agreements strongly demand the protection and more sustainable use of marine areas for humanity at large. Recent global security issues and geopolitical turmoil resulting from the Russian war against Ukraine complicate global cooperation on the oceans. Also the transformation of energy systems to more renewables affects coastal and ocean communities.

At the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), experts investigate challenges and transformation processes that go along with the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. By considering different perspectives, they identify trade-offs, need for reforms and adaptation, and develop recommendations for political practitioners.

Publications

Germany’s new Arctic guidelines: a case for knowledge diversification
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Charlotte Gehrke (2024)
The Current Column of 14 October 2024

Following a deep-sea channel
Hägele, Ramona (2024)
in: Nature and Culture 19 (2), 209-235

Doing marine worlds: marine STSing through Germany and beyond
Bogusz, Tanja / Ramona Hägele / Laura Otto (2024)
EASST Review 43 (1), 56-59

Transnational intersectionality at sea: gender, appearance, ethnicity, age, and marine knowledge production
Hägele, Ramona / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2024)
in: Ocean and Society 2, article 8737

Küsten schützen
Schüpf, Dennis / Felix Brentrup (2024)
published on 17ziele.de/blog

Five social science intervention areas for ocean sustainability initiatives
Partelow, Stefan / Achim Schlüter / Natalie C. Ban /.../ Anna-Katharina Horndige et al. (2023)
in: Ocean Sustainability 2, article 24

Postcolonial oceans: contradictions, heterogeneities, knowledges, materialities
Chatterjee, Sukla / Joanna Chojnicka / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Kerstin Knopf (eds.)(2023)
Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing

How digitalisation and technology empower women working on the ocean and along the Amazon River
Hägele,Ramona / Juliana Arcoverde Mansur (2023)
The Current Column of 19 June 2023

From Rovaniemi to Tromsø spirit?
Methi, Kirsti / Dorothea Wehrmann (2023)
The Current Column of 30 May 2023

Ocean governance knowledge: systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses
Partelow, Stefan / Maria Hadjimichael / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Cham: Springer Nature

A rights-based approach for implementing the European Green Deal
Nystø Keskitalo Anja Márjá / Jacqueline Götze (2023)
The Current Column of 6 February 2023

Coastal urbanities: mobilities, meanings, manoeuvrings
Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Kelvin E.Y. Low / Noorman Abdullah / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) (2023)
Social Sciences in Asia, Band 42, Leiden: Brill

Transnational cities alliances and their role in policy-making in sustainable urban development in the European Arctic
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Michał Łuszczuk / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Arne Riedel / Jacqueline Götze (2022)
in: Nikolas Sellheim / Dwayne Ryan Menezes (eds.), Non-state actors in the Arctic region, Cham: Springer Nature, 113-131

Early insights from the first year of the UN Decade for Ocean Science
Schoderer, Mirja / Ramona Hägele (2022)
The Current Column of 19 September 2022

Safeguarding the blue planet: eight recommendations to sustainably use and govern the ocean and its resources
Schoderer, Mirja / Henry Bittig / Françoise Gaill / Kristina Gjerde / Sheila J. Heymans / Birgit Klein / David Obura / Torten Thiele / Sebastian Unger / Martin Visbeck / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
in: T7 Task Force Climate and Environment, 21.03.2022

Contested estuary ontologies: The conflict over the fairway adaptation of the Elbe River, Germany
Hein, Jonas / Jannes Thomsen (2022)
in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, first published 17.05.2022

Governability of regional challenges: the Arctic development paradox
Łuszczuk, Michał / Jacqueline Götze / Katarzyna Radzik‐Maruszak / Arne Riedel / Dorothea Wehrmann (2022)
in: Politics and Governance 10 (3), 29-40

Constructing ocean and polar governance
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Hubert Zimmermann (eds.) (2022)
Special issue of Politics & Governance 10 (3)

Local infrastructures and global crises in the remote Arctic: implications for the EU arctic policy
Götze, Jacqueline (2022)
in: Arctic Winter College 2021 Policy Briefs (1), 18-22

China in the Pacific: economic interests and security cooperation in a contested region
Cissé Daouda (2022)
International Development Blog, 8 June 2022

Breaking down barriers: the identification of actions to promote gender equality in interdisciplinary marine research institutions
Shellock, Rebekka J. / Christopher Cvitanovic / Mary Mackay / [...] / Anna-Katharina Hornidge et al. (2022)
in: One Earth, first published 07.06.2022

Der Podcast zur Ozeandekade - Folge 5
Marie Heidenreich speaking with Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Sebastian Unger about the importance of open access to the ocean (in German)
BMBF, 6 May 2022

What future for cooperation in the Arctic? Scenarios after Putin’s war on Ukraine
Riedel, Arne / Dorothea Wehrmann / Jacqueline Götze / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Michał Łuszczuk (2022)
published on blogs.die-gdi.de, 16.03.2022

Introduction to the special issue “Climate and marine justice – debates and critical perspectives”
Bercht, Lena / Jonas Hein / Silja Klepp (2021)
in: Geographica Helvetica 76, 305–314

Global fisheries - still a blind spot in international cooperation
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Niels Keijzer (2021)
in: RURAL 21 55 (4), 6-9

Towards sustainable ocean governance: a call for blue climate action in international development
Lehmann, Ina / Michael Siebert / Nicola Hanke / Maximilian Högl / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2021)
Briefing Paper 22/2021

Shared challenges of cities in and beyond the Arctic
Götze, Jacqueline, Dorothea Wehrmann, Michał Łuszczuk, Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak (2021)
The Current Column of 2 November 2021

Why it matters how we produce knowledge on marine CO2 observations
Hägele, Ramona / Mirja Schoderer (2021)
The Current Colunn of 28 June 2021

The value of transdisciplinary and collaborative ocean research
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Jacqueline Götze / Michał Łuszczuk / Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak / Arne Riedel (2021)
The Current Column of 17 June 2021

Need for improved governance of marine protected areas
Lehmann, Ina (2021)
The Current Column of 7 June 2021

Developing a framework for the analysis of Arctic indigenous institutions in a rapidly transforming region
Götze, Jacqueline (2020)
in: Arctic Yearbook, 155-174, Online

The Arctic Council as a success case for transnational cooperation in times of rapid global changes?
Wehrmann, Dorothea (2020)
in: Arctic Yearbook, 425-442, Online

The ocean as a lifeline for the future of the planet
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2020)
The Current Column of 8 June 2020

Epistemic Mobilities: Following Sea-level Change Adaptation Practices in Southeast Asian Cities
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Johannes Herbeck / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Michael Flitner (2020)
American Behavioral Scientist, 64(10), 1497-1511

Commentary 12 to the Manifesto for the Marine Social Sciences: theory development
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Achim Schlüter (2020)
Maritime Studies, 19, 151–152

Konstruierte Ortsungebundenheit und Körperlichkeit in Orten der Wissenschaft Feldstationen und Forschungsschiffe
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2020)
Grenzen der Kommunikation–Kommunikation an den Grenzen (pp 165-181), Velbrück Wissenschaft

Tropical Marine Sciences: Knowledge Production in a Web of Path Dependencies
Partelow, Stefan / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Paula Senff / Moritz Stäbler / Achim Schlüter (2020)
PLOS ONE 15(2)

Umweltkrisen
Schanze, Jochen / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Gérard Hutter / Andreas Macke / Daniel Osberghaus (2020)
in: Handbuch Krisenforschung (pp 179-204), Springer VS, Wiesbaden

Land-sea interactions and coastal development: An evolutionary governance perspective
Schlüter, Achim / Kristof van Assche / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Natasa Vaidianu (eds.) (2020)
in: Marine Policy (Special Issue ), 112 (February)

Transnational Cooperation in Times of Rapid Global Changes: The Arctic Council as a Success Case?
Wehrmann, Dorothea (2020)
Discussion Paper 12/2020

Ecosystem-based adaptation projects: more than just adaptation: analysis of social benefits and costs in Colombia
Richerzhagen, Carmen / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco / Felix Weinsheimer / Alessandro Döhnert / Lukas Kleiner / Marjam Mayer / Julia Morawietz / Eric Philipp (2019)
in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (21), 4248

Global commission calls for urgent action on climate adaptation
Bauer, Steffen / Mariya Aleksandrova (2019)
The Current Column of 11 September 2019

Freshwater as a Global Commons: International Governance and the Role of Germany
Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Elke / Waltina Scheumann / Annabelle Houdret / Ines Dombrowsky (2019)
Discussion Paper 15/2019

Entwicklungspolitisch sensible Umweltpolitik
Richerzagen, Carmen / Steffen Bauer / Crisitna Espinosa / Michael Pregernig (2019)
Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt (Texte 83/2019) (Online)

PhD theses

The Meaning of Mangroves
Broocks, Anne-Katrin
University of Bremen & Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Financed by: Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)

 

Narrating Science as a World-Making Activity: Sea Level Change in Singapore
Dippel, Beatrice
Financed by: Volkswagen Stiftung

 

Sámi-EU relations: Sámi participation in the EU as an example of Indigenous peoples' participation in transnational policy-making?
Götze, Jacqueline
University of Bonn
Financed by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

 

Time to turn the tide in marine sciences? Praxeological investigation of interdisciplinary and transcultural knowledge production in marine carbon observations
Hägele, Ramona
Financed by: BMBF

 

Traveling Waves of Knowledge and Technologies - The Indonesian Tsunami Warning System Indonesia
Rafliana, Irina
Financed by: DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 2019-2023

 

Undermining Adaptation Effectiveness? Coastal Adaptation and the Impact of Non-climate Drivers for local Communities in India and beyond
Schüpf, Dennis
Financed by: Klimalog, BMZ

Publication

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Cover: Ocean governance knowledge: systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses Partelow, Stefan / Maria Hadjimichael / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) (2023) Cham: Springer Nature

Ocean governance knowledge: systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses
Partelow, Stefan / Maria Hadjimichael / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Cham: Springer Nature

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Cover: The Current Column of 14 October 2024 "Germany’s new Arctic guidelines: a case for knowledge diversification" by Dorothea Wehrmann and Charlotte Gehrke.

Germany’s new Arctic guidelines: a case for knowledge diversification
Wehrmann, Dorothea / Charlotte Gehrke (2024)
The Current Column of 14 October 2024

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Cover: Nature and Culture

Following a deep-sea channel
Hägele, Ramona (2024)
in: Nature and Culture 19 (2), 209-235

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Cover: Ocean and Society

Transnational intersectionality at sea: gender, appearance, ethnicity, age, and marine knowledge production
Hägele, Ramona / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2024)
in: Ocean and Society 2, article 8737