Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions

作者：Andrea Franke, Kimberley Peters, Jochen Hinkel, Anna‐Katharina Hornidge, Achim Schlüter, Oliver Zielinski, Karen Helen Wiltshire, Ute Jacob, Gesche Krause, Helmut Hillebrand · 发表于：People and Nature · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1002/pan3.10412 · 被引用次数：38 · 研究领域：Coastal and Marine Management、Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development、Delphi Technique in Research

Abstract Due to the strong interconnectedness between the ocean and our societies worldwide, improved ocean governance is essential for sustainable development in the context of the UN Ocean Decade. However, a multitude of different perspectives—ecological, societal, political, economic—and relations between these have to be understood and taken into consideration to foster transformative pathways towards marine sustainability. A core challenge that we are facing is that the ‘right’ response to complex societal issues cannot be known beforehand as abilities to predict complex systems are limited. Consequently, societal transformation is necessarily a journey towards the unknown and therefore requires experimental approaches that must enable the involvement of everyone with stakes in the future of our marine environment and its resources. A promising transdisciplinary research method that fulfils both criteria—being participatory and experimental—are real‐world laboratories. Here, we discuss how real‐world labs can serve as an operational framework in the context of the Ocean Decade by facilitating and guiding successful knowledge exchange at the interface of science and society. The core element of real‐world labs is transdisciplinary experimentation to jointly develop potential strategies leading to targeted real‐world interventions, essential for achieving the proposed ‘Decade Outcomes’. The authors specifically illustrate how deploying the concept of real‐world labs can be...