The ACCESS/BoFEP 2022 Conference program is available here
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Abstract
Occupying more than 90% of the habitable space on earth, the oceans are essential for the ecosystem, economic, social, and political sustainability of the planet. Immense pressures, e.g., over exploitation of marine resources, have placed marine environments at serious risk. Researchers, managers, and policy makers around the world are giving increasing attention to the complexity of factors contributing to the deterioration of the oceans, which is resulting in a growing body of literature about the intersection of research and policy about marine environments. Using a variety of databases we identified 410 research publications about the science-policy interface specifically related to the oceans published between 2013 and 2021. We then used the Web of Science to collect records of papers cited by or citing the 368 papers to determine that 24,492 other publications are linked in the global citation network. This poster will present an analysis of the network of these 24,292 papers to illustrate the global research landscape in which the ocean science-policy interface studies are situated. We will give particular attention to the different topics represented in the network, and the relative position that the science-policy interface research occupies. We will also outline the contribution of authors in the Atlantic provinces, both in terms of the attention that the region has received as a research object or setting, and the contribution of Atlantic Canada researchers to global research understanding of ocean science and policy. In addition to these findings, the poster will identify research opportunities meriting attention.
Citation
Long, L., Mongeon, P., & MacDonald, B. H. (2022). Situating Atlantic Canada in the global research on the science-policy interface and the oceans. ACCESS/BoFEP Conference 2022, Truro, Nova Scotia, 17-21 May 2022.
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