This Open Access book on Ocean Governance examines the diversity sustainability challenges facing our oceans today. The book is organized into three sections: knowledge systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses. The knowledge produced in the book was catalyzed by the scientific outcomes from collaborations within the European-funded Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) network "Ocean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges, Options and the Role of Science", a network embedded in the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union. This network brings together scientists, policy-makers and civil society representatives from 28 nation states to create and coordinate a research network for multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research on ocean governance in Europe. Focal thematic areas from the Ocean Governance network are reflected in the book's content, including: land sea interactions, area-based management, seabed management, nutrition and food security, climate change, acidification and fisheries governance. This book is a compilation of new research material including focused case studies, broad policy syntheses and reflective chapters on the history and current status of knowledge production systems in the field's related to ocean governance. The book provides new material without relying on the summaries of secondary sources, although some chapters draw on such data. The book starts with synthetic review chapters by the editors, outlining past and present knowledge systems, addressing how and why ocean governance for sustainability is where it currently stands with critical reflections on existing narratives, path dependencies and colonialist histories. This is followed by a series of chapters addressing, synthesizing and analyzing different legal and policy frameworks for ocean governance both regionally and internationally. The core of the book's contributions is in the third section of thematic analyses. Here a diverse compendium of chapters provides a range of focused case studies with detailed contextual information in support of different ocean governance challenges and sustainability pathways around the world. The book concludes with a chapter explicitly targeting students, researchers and policy-makers. The conclusion explicitly summarizes the key take-away messages for each with references to the book's chapters and recent literature in the field. The conclusion section is part of the knowledge systems section written by the editors.

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Dr. Stefan Partelow is a researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany. He focuses on governance and sustainability issues surrounding environmental commons, specializing in marine and coastal systems. He draws extensively on social-ecological systems concepts and analytical approaches, employing both inter- and trans-disciplinary methods. His focal geographies span the global tropics, with extensive research on small-scale fisheries, aquaculture and tourism in Indonesia. He is the co-founder and co-host of the In Common podcast, featuring interviews with emerging and leading researchers in the environmental social sciences around the world. Dr. Maria Hadjimichael's interests lie in the study and understanding of the governance of the commons, particularly marine and coastal commons. She examines issues such as the 'stealing of the seashore' and ocean grabbing through neoliberal mechanisms. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Innovative Fisheries Management Institute of Aalborg University in Denmark. Her PhD (Bangor University, U.K.) explored the human dimensions of the European fisheries governance. She has worked on numerous interdisciplinary EU funded projects and conducted fieldwork in the UK, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Cyprus, the US and Chile. She has also founded the website reclaimthesea.org. Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge is Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Professor for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. In her research, she works on knowledges & innovation for development, as well as questions of natural resource governance in agriculture and fisheries in Asia and Africa. She serves as an expert advisor at the national, EU and UN level: as Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change of the German Government (WBGU), Co-Chair (with Gesine Schwan) of SDSN Germany, and as part of the executive council of the German UNESCO-Commission.