[Call for papers] S.O.S. - Science for Ocean Sustainability
Leandra Regina Gonçalves
Dear all:
This special issue seeks to publish papers on the ten Ocean Decade challenges, providing a reflection within the Earth System Governance perspective. I would be delighted if you would accept our invitation to develop an article for this issue. Manuscripts will be due by 25 October 2021. You can read the full special issue scope here. Additionally, Earth System Governance is currently waiving the article publishing charge for all papers published in this special issue.
The Earth System Governance project’s latest research framework presents a number of themes relevant to this task, including Democracy & Power, Architecture & Agency, Justice & Allocation, Anticipation & Imagination, and Adaptiveness & Flexibility. With these research lenses in mind, this Special Issue seeks to attract previously unpublished work that addresses the challenges for ocean governance from an Earth System Governance perspective. Submissions may take the form of Perspectives of 2-4k words, Reviews of up to 12k words, and Research Articles of 8-10k words (see explanations ). Theoretical, empirical, critical, and summative papers are all welcome. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The Ocean Decade Challenges from a social science perspective
- The governance of ocean decade
- Just and Inclusive transition to a blue economy
- Fisheries, Ports, Mining - planning the future of blue economy
- Gender and Ocean Governance
- Actors in the ocean arena
- Coastal Livelihoods and Adaptation
- Place-Based Community Vulnerabilities and Response
I hope you will consider contributing to this special issue. Please do read more about the issue and submit your work here, and feel free to get in touch with me with any questions.
Oceanographic Institute