Informal Consultative Process United Nations
Ocean Nexus
Dr.Yoshitaka OtaDirector, Ocean Nexus
Professor of MarineAffairs, University of Rhode Island
Ocean Equity
O’Neill, B. F., Schneider, M.J. Garcia Lozano,A. (2024). "Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Approach to Ocean Equity." Environmental Justice. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2023.006.
Crosman, K. M.,Allison, E. H., Ota,Y., Cisneros-Montemayor,A. M., Singh, G. G., Swartz, W., ... & Spalding,A. K. (2022). Social equity is key to sustainable ocean governance. npj Ocean Sustainability, 1(1), 4.
Oceans and Human Health
Kenny,T.A.,Archambault, P.,Ayotte, P., Batal, M., Chan, H. M., Cheung, W., ... & Lemire, M. (2020).
Oceans and human health—navigating changes on Canada’s coasts. Facets, 5(1), 1037-1070.
Indigenous Seafood Consumption
Cisneros-Montemayor,Andrés M., et al. “AGlobal Estimate of Seafood Consumption by Coastal Indigenous Peoples.” PLOS ONE, vol. 11, no. 12, 5 Dec. 2016, p. e0166681, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166681.
Equity and Marine Plastic Pollution
Illustration: Mari Shibuya
Vandenberg, J., OtsukaTrudo, K., Faustman, E. M., Falman, J.,An, S., … Ota.,Y. (2022).Towards an EquitableApproach to Marine Plastic Pollution. Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, Seattle, WA.
Equity and Marine Plastic Pollution
“Many of these chemicals such as methylmercury, organochlorines, and legacy per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances accumulate in marine food webs. Exposures to these chemicals are associated with the global pandemic of neurocognitive deficits in children, rapid increases in immune and metabolic disorders, and impaired cardiovascular health among many populations.”
—Dr. Elsie M. Sunderland, PlasticsAre the Visible Art of the Wider “Invisible” Ocean Pollutant, Towards an Equitable Approach to Marine Plastic Pollution
Illustration: Mari ShibuyaBlue Economy
Cisneros-Montemayor,A. M., Moreno-Báez, M., Reygondeau, G., Cheung, W. W., Crosman, K. M., González-Espinosa, P. C., ... & Ota,Y. (2021).
Enabling conditions for an equitable and sustainable blue economy. Nature, 591(7850), 396-401.
Mass Mortality Events
Singh, G. G., Sajid, Z., & Mather, C. (2024).
Quantitative analysis of mass mortality events in salmon aquaculture shows increasing scale of fish loss events around the world. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 3763.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54033-9
Indigenous Reconciliation
Bodwitch, H., Song,A. M.,Temby, O., Reid, J., Bailey, M., & Hickey, G. M. (2022). Why New Zealand’s Indigenous reconciliation process has failed to empower Māori fishers: Distributional, procedural, and recognition-based injustices. World Development, 157, 105894.
Critical Environmental Justice
FATHOM is the official blog of Ocean Nexus fully focused on critical environmental justice topics.
Oceannexus.org/Blog
Oceannexus.org/webinar
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