Co-organized with the OceanKAN, this forum centers around the development of pathways towards a sustainable and just ocean governance from structural and community-based perspectives.
Presentations from the three speakers are followed by a discussion on the complementarity and possible synergies between transformative pathways happening at different scales. The discussion also touched on the political dimension of transformations-oriented research, and the implications it has on the positionality of researchers.
Speakers:
- Alexandre Ganachaud (IRD) works with the Pacific Community (SPC) on the vulnerability of Oceania’s fisheries to climate change. He leads PACPATH, a transdisciplinary pathways-oriented research project aiming to contribute to ocean sustainability.
- Leopoldo Gerhardinger (ICTA – Autonomous University of Barcelona) has been conducting transdisciplinary research using a networked knowledge-to-action approach focused on pathways towards structural changes in marine governance systems in Brazil.
- Victor Brun (CRIOBE) is currently conducting research in the Philippines on the participatory processes through which Sulubaaï, a local NGO, works with local villages to create community-managed marine protected areas.
The Pathways Forum is an online event where researchers from diverse disciplines who engage, or want to engage, with societal actors in processes of adaptive learning to design, implement, and evaluate pathways to sustainability get a chance to reflect on concepts and theories of change, and discuss the practical implications of sustainability science and transdisciplinarity for research practices. Through this webinar series, the Pathways Initiative aims to develop and support agenda-setting, synthesis and capacity building around pathways for sustainability.