This episode elaoborates on the Seascape Ecology scheme and on the concept of defining a global sustainability science agenda without bias.

It is based on the new publication of over 30 co-authors by Pittmann et al. (2021) which essentially tried to follow the Sutherland et al. (2009) approach to find and highlight research priorities for the so-complex world ocean scheme reaching sustainability (something that we are currently far away from, e.g. ocean crisis and based on a traditional reductionistic approach/oceanography/research vessels).

In the meantime, the concept of Seascape Ecology is presented, e.g. (Pittmann 2017) -stemming initially from Landscape Ecology (e.g. Forman 1995) - allowing for more 'ecumenical'  approaches to research and to obtain 'patterns and processes', usually being based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, deep models and more holistic concepts like telecoupling (Liu et al. 2018 ) that are urgently needed to better tackle global sustainability questions.

References

Pittman S.J. , K. L. Yates, P. J. Bouchet, D. Alvarez-Berastegui, S. Andréfouët, S. S. Bell, C. Berkström, C. Boström, C. J. Brown, R. M. Connolly, R. Devillers, D. Eggleston, B. L. Gilby, M. Gullström, B. S. Halpern, M. Hidalgo, D. Holstein, K. Hovel, F. Huettmann, E. L. Jackson, W. R. James J. B. Kellner, C. Y. Kot, V. Lecours, C. Lepczyk, I. Nagelkerken, J. Nelson, A. D. Olds, R. O. Santos, K. L. Scales, D. C. Schneider, H. T. Schilling, C. Simenstad, I. M. Suthers, E. A. Treml, L. M. Wedding, P. Yates and M. Young. Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science. Marine Ecology Progress Series 663: 1-29 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13661 

Pittmann S. (ed) (2017) Seascape Ecology. Wiley Blackwell

Forman R.T.T. (1995) Land Mosaics (The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions). Cambridge University Press. 

Liu J., Y. Dou, M. Batistella, E.Challies, T.Conno, C.Friis, J.DA. Millington, E. Parish, C. L Romulo, R.F.Bicudo Silva, H. Triezenberg, H.Yang, Z.Zhao, K. S. Zimmerer, F. Huettmann, M.L. Treglia, Z. Basher, M.G. Chung, A.Herzberger, A.Lenschow, A. Mechiche-Alami, J. Newig, J.Roch  and J. Sun (2018) Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability. Environmental Sustainability 33:58-69 doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust. 2018.04.009

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