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    • Assessments and their status in international law 

      Sander, Gunnar (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2020-03)
      The workshop addressed the issue of "environmental impact assessments" in the new implementation agreement under the law of the sea convention on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ. This was the opening presentation. The purpose was to give a brief overview of different types of assessments and their status in international law. I also made several comments to the negotiations. At the ...
    • Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy 

      Karcher, Denis B.; Cvitanovic, Christopher; van Putten, Ingrid E.; Colvin, Rebecca M.; Armitage, Derek; Aswani, Shankar; Ballesteros, Marta; Ban, Natalie C.; Barragán-Paladines, María José; Bednarek, Angela; Bell, Johann D.; Brooks, Cassandra M.; Daw, Tim M.; de la Cruz-Modino, Raquel; Francis, Tessa B.; Fulton, Elizabeth A.; Hobday, Alistair J.; Holcer, Draško; Hudson, Charlotte; Jennerjahn, Tim C.; Kinney, Aimee; Knol-Kauffman, Maaike; Löf, Marie F.; Lopes, Priscila F.M.; Mackelworth, Peter C.; McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail; Muhl, Ella-Kari; Neihapi, Pita; Pascual-Fernández, José J.; Posner, Stephen M.; Runhaar, Hens; Sainsbury, Keith; Sander, Gunnar; Steenbergen, Dirk J.; Tuda, Paul M.; Whiteman, Elizabeth; Zhang, Jialin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-19)
      Evidence-informed decision-making is in increasing demand given growing pressures on marine environments. A way to facilitate this is by knowledge exchange among marine scientists and decision-makers. While many barriers are reported in the literature, there are also examples whereby research has successfully informed marine decision-making (i.e., ‘bright-spots’). Here, we identify and analyze 25 ...
    • Slow progress towards a better regime for environmental impact assessments 

      Sander, Gunnar (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2018)
      The purpose of the presentation is to give an overview of the status of environmental assessments in international law, and to review the progress of a global and a regional process in trying to improve the current regime.   The international regime for environmental impact assessments (EIA) in the Arctic Ocean is symptomatic for the situation in most regional seas. There is a predominance of ...