Theorizing Ocean Governance: A Framework Combining Governance, Science, and Law - Paperback

by Lena Schøning (Author)

Ocean governance is emerging as a field of study drawing on and combining different knowledge domains, including governance, science, and law. Assumptions of these three knowledge domains and their relationships are rarely discussed. This study attempts to contribute to such discussion by theory-building: investigating the governance-science and governance-law interfaces in an ocean governance context. The investigations form the basis for offering some perspectives concerning key topics of ocean governance: cross-sectoral, holistic, and integrated approaches, science-based decision-making, adaptation, the ecosystem approach, and ocean governance as an emerging field of study.

Author Biography

Lena Schøning, Ph.D. (2021), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea. She has published interdisciplinary articles on ocean governance and law, including The Contribution of Integrated Marine Policies to Marine Environmental Protection: The Case of Norway (The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 2021) and Law and sustainable transitions: An analysis of aquaculture regulation (Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2023).