The Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Ocens - University of Oxford
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Our approach is to harness a variety of disciplines in order to achieve breakthroughs in managing the global oceans, drawing on new technologies including Earth observation, deep-submergence vehicles, advances in computer modelling and machine learning. It uses these to resolve knowledge gaps and to develop new approaches to marine management, surveillance of human activities and regulatory enforcement.
A significant element of the project will work to resolve barriers to progress in sustainable ocean management, and includes key areas of fisheries management, seabed extraction, the mapping and protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services, technological solutions to regulatory enforcement, and the associated changes required in governance and legal frameworks necessary to enable effective regulation, particularly in areas beyond national jurisdiction. This work will feed into discussions relating to a new implementing agreement for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which is likely to run through 2017, 2018 and beyond.
This five year project aims to guide the management of marine resources toward sustainable and economically beneficial exploitation, where biodiversity and the associated ecosystem services are maintained for future generations.
The Oxford Martin Programme on Sustainable Oceans is supremely positioned to contribute to the process of rebalancing humanity's relationship with the oceans, by developing new tools for management and by equipping policy makers with the knowledge necessary for improved the governance of the oceans.