Understanding Marine Changes
Environmental Knowledge and Methods of Research
Published on 10. November 2023
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-0353-1110-1 (ISBN)
Description
Studying environmental changes to the seas and oceans through a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this pioneering book outlines the challenges of researching marine environmental issues.
With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which produce them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex and uncertain, arising from multiple and interconnected issues. Bringing together academic expertise from different fields of study, this innovative book engages with stakeholders and branches of local ecological knowledge to address marine changes, outlining how they must be studied from multiple perspectives rather than a single academic discipline to reach effective solutions. Discussing marine interdisciplinarity in action, the book features international case studies from diverse fields across the ocean sciences, humanities and social sciences that explore art and science collaborations in practice.
Showcasing the practical challenges and opportunities of such research, this will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars across such subject areas as environmental governance and regulation, marine and ocean sciences, sustainability studies and climate change. Its findings will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with marine changes across the world.
With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which produce them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex and uncertain, arising from multiple and interconnected issues. Bringing together academic expertise from different fields of study, this innovative book engages with stakeholders and branches of local ecological knowledge to address marine changes, outlining how they must be studied from multiple perspectives rather than a single academic discipline to reach effective solutions. Discussing marine interdisciplinarity in action, the book features international case studies from diverse fields across the ocean sciences, humanities and social sciences that explore art and science collaborations in practice.
Showcasing the practical challenges and opportunities of such research, this will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars across such subject areas as environmental governance and regulation, marine and ocean sciences, sustainability studies and climate change. Its findings will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with marine changes across the world.
Reviews / Votes
'Through 13 chapters, the editors and authors of this book are to be congratulated in showcasing not only Finnish research into marine social and natural sciences but also including information in adjacent Baltic waters as well as theories and concepts which are relevant worldwide. The chapters show the importance of integrated research linked to marine and coastal management and governance.' -- Mike Elliott, University of Hull, UK 'This volume offers an impressive array of case studies demonstrating how different disciplines, and different community voices, can work in dialogue to illuminate the complexity of "wicked" environmental problems - and how they may be remediated. A rich and stimulating read for scholars, artists and activists concerned with the world's oceans.' -- Jane Costlow, Bates College, US 'This is a rare case of transdisciplinary study that deals with so-called wicked environmental problems i.e. those, where the stakeholders represent different systems of values, and natural sciences can't give the full picture. Reaching for art, traditional knowledge and the new field of "marine social sciences" permits us to present the complexity of situations that we are all going to face with climate change.' -- Jan Marcin Weslawski, Institute of Oceanology PAN, PolandMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-1110-1 (9781035311101)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edited by Savitri Jetoo, Adjunct Professor, Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law, Abo Akademi University, Jaana Kouri, Adjunct Professor, Study of Religion, University of Turku, Silja Laine, Senior Research Fellow, Cultural History, (title of) Docent in Urban Cultural History, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku, Nina Tynkkynen, Professor in Environmental Governance and Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law, Abo Akademi University and Anna Toernroos, Associate Professor in Functional Marine Ecology and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Content
Contents:
1 Introduction: towards holistic knowledge of marine
environmental changes 1
Nina Tynkkynen, Savitri Jetoo, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine
and Anna Toernroos
PART I INTERDISCIPLINARITY OF CONCEPTS AND
METHODS
2 Climate change scenarios and future legal challenges: the
northern seas experiment 22
Viljam Engstroem and Michel Rouleau-Dick
3 The anti-landscapes of the Arctic: understanding
circumpolar sea-land relationships from a Lacanian perspective 43
Chenru Xue
PART II INTERDISCIPLINARITY WITHIN AND
BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS
4 Environmental heritage for sustainability 67
Nina Tynkkynen, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine, Otto Latva,
Tuomas Raesaenen and Kirsi Sonck-Rautio
5 'Everything is protected now, but who protects the local
people?': local ecological knowledge of Kihnu Island 86
Raivo Kalle, Anatole Danto, Renata Soukand and Andrea Pieroni
6 The anatomy of complex marine problems: a case study of
decision-making on archipelagic aquaculture 106
Henrik Ringbom, Magnus Hellstroem, Christian Pansch,
Nina Tynkkynen and Anna Toernroos
PART III CO-CREATING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
7 Sea and me: creative writing as a research method in the
co-creation of environmental heritage 136
Jaana Kouri and Savitri Jetoo
8 Many voices and tipping point: two case studies of art and
science collaborations as processes of knowledge production 154
Laura Hellsten and Frank Berger
9 Creative environmental relationships enhance resilience:
sensobiographic walks at Kokemaeenjoki river 175
Inkeri Aula
PART IV ENGAGING WITH THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD
10 Hydro-sociality: life by the North Water in High Arctic Greenland 197
Kirsten Hastrup
11 Art of navigating shifting salinities and shorelines 210
Taru Elfving
12 The concept of plasticology 228
Agnieszka Dabrowska
13 Marine plastic waste: new technologies for plastic waste
minimization 246
Malgorzata Rusinska, Anna Wozna and Michal Rybka
Index
1 Introduction: towards holistic knowledge of marine
environmental changes 1
Nina Tynkkynen, Savitri Jetoo, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine
and Anna Toernroos
PART I INTERDISCIPLINARITY OF CONCEPTS AND
METHODS
2 Climate change scenarios and future legal challenges: the
northern seas experiment 22
Viljam Engstroem and Michel Rouleau-Dick
3 The anti-landscapes of the Arctic: understanding
circumpolar sea-land relationships from a Lacanian perspective 43
Chenru Xue
PART II INTERDISCIPLINARITY WITHIN AND
BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS
4 Environmental heritage for sustainability 67
Nina Tynkkynen, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine, Otto Latva,
Tuomas Raesaenen and Kirsi Sonck-Rautio
5 'Everything is protected now, but who protects the local
people?': local ecological knowledge of Kihnu Island 86
Raivo Kalle, Anatole Danto, Renata Soukand and Andrea Pieroni
6 The anatomy of complex marine problems: a case study of
decision-making on archipelagic aquaculture 106
Henrik Ringbom, Magnus Hellstroem, Christian Pansch,
Nina Tynkkynen and Anna Toernroos
PART III CO-CREATING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
7 Sea and me: creative writing as a research method in the
co-creation of environmental heritage 136
Jaana Kouri and Savitri Jetoo
8 Many voices and tipping point: two case studies of art and
science collaborations as processes of knowledge production 154
Laura Hellsten and Frank Berger
9 Creative environmental relationships enhance resilience:
sensobiographic walks at Kokemaeenjoki river 175
Inkeri Aula
PART IV ENGAGING WITH THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD
10 Hydro-sociality: life by the North Water in High Arctic Greenland 197
Kirsten Hastrup
11 Art of navigating shifting salinities and shorelines 210
Taru Elfving
12 The concept of plasticology 228
Agnieszka Dabrowska
13 Marine plastic waste: new technologies for plastic waste
minimization 246
Malgorzata Rusinska, Anna Wozna and Michal Rybka
Index