mar475 - Ocean Governance and Policy
Module label | Ocean Governance and Policy |
Module code | mar475 |
Credit points | 6.0 KP |
Workload | 180 h |
Institute directory | Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment |
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Skills to be acquired in this module | Our world is facing unprecedented change. The task of science helps us understand - to map, measure, model, predict and forecast - such change. Yet effective governance and policy are the tools to ensure scientific knowledge translates into societal and political action to mitigate the harmful impacts environmental change. However, the relationship between science, governance and policy is not straightforward. It is necessary to understand what governance and policy are and what can be achieved through (good) governance and the creation of policy. It is also vital to understand the logics and power dynamics that shape governance and policy, the politics of data that inform it, the difficulties of enacting governance and policy in a space that is (mostly) liquid, three-dimensional in form and has variable legal status, and where enforcement of governance is tricky in a space typically ‘out of sight and mind’. This course provides a necessary bridge for students seeking to understand governance and policy, and well as providing a working knowledge of the history of ocean governance, typical approaches, and contemporary challenges. It urges students to think critically, an essential transferable skill. It dismantles the idea of governance and policy as natural ‘givens’ to saving and fixing the oceans, to better interrogate how this goal can actually be achieved. The course aims to enable students to have a good handle on key issues and to be armed with knowledge to assist in more careful planning of marine futures. It also engages practical skills in communication, group work, independent reading, problem solving and debate. Expertise The students: Methodological skills The students: • structure, document and evaluate problems and solutions using the tools of policy brief design • devise, plan and articulate modes of engaging publics in governance decision making via writing a stakeholder engagement document Social skills The students: Self-skills The students: |
Module contents | Lecture and Seminar will run in parallel, the lecture providing the basis on each of the parts, and the seminar deepening these through workshops. VL and SE courses will be split into 6 sections focused on: 1) Setting the scene asking, what is governance, what is policy and providing a history of ocean governance and policies and of governance and policy for marine biodiversity; 2) Sovereignty and Territory, exploring the the zoning the ocean for state control and the ensuing geopolitics of territorial enclosure; 3) Science and policy, investigating the politics of data driven marine plans, policy and governance; 4) Stakeholders and participation, considering who is (and isn’t) involved in ocean governance decisions and how we can practically make governance more equitable; 5) Static and sedentary governance, which opens up discussion to alternative modes of governing aside from fixed, territorial zones to flexible, real-time governance; 6) Sanctions and Enforcement to look at how governance falls short and fails through monitoring, surveillance and policing. |
Recommended reading | Wird in den Veranstaltungen bekannt gegeben. |
Links | Informationen werden in Stud.IP bereit gestellt. |
Language of instruction | English |
Duration (semesters) | 1 Semester |
Module frequency | annually |
Module capacity | 40 ( 2 Seminare je 20 Teilnehmer, Verfahren siehe Stud.IP |
Type of course | Comment | SWS | Frequency | Workload of compulsory attendance |
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Lecture | 2 | WiSe | 28 | |
Seminar | 2 | WiSe | 28 | |
Total module attendance time | 56 h |
Examination | Prüfungszeiten | Type of examination |
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Final exam of module | Termin wird zu Beginn der Veranstaltung bekannt gegeben. |
1 benotete Prüfungsleistung 1 Hausarbeit Hausarbeit - 3,000 words consisting of 3x 1000 word assignments (not including references). Word count can be a maximum +10% above.
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