International Collaboration in Ocean Science and Governance

This book introduces a novel model to explain how the co-design and co-delivery of ocean science knowledge and solutions is influenced by ocean stakeholders with asymmetric power and resources, policy incentives and ocean conflict, ocean narratives, different knowledge systems, security concerns, principles, formal and informal rules, and communication competences. Using the International Collaboration in Ocean Science model as a basis, the book advances with three lines of inquiry: ontological security of ocean science participants, the Ocean Decade and human well-being, and strategic narratives about international collaboration in ocean science. Through these, Carolijn van Noort shows the enabling and constraining conditions of co-creating ocean knowledge and solutions. Theoretically novel, the book provides a compelling framework for scholars to study ocean science collaboration

Carolijn van Noort is Associate Professor in Blue Governance at Aalborg University in Denmark. She works at the Centre for Blue Governance, which is a multidisciplinary group of researchers focusing on the interactions between people and the sea. Her research focuses on the governance and management of marine and ocean spaces, particularly in relation to multi-level and multi-actor collaboration, digitalization, and strategic communication. Van Noort is strongly committed to producing interdisciplinary knowledge, as evidenced by her studies in Global Information, Politics and Society, Area Studies, AI and Society, and International Relations