Aletta Mondré’s research while affiliated with Fachhochschule Kiel and other places

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Fig. 12.1 Relationships among ecosystem services, their study and phases in environmental planning where ecosystem services can be incorporated. (Adapted from Le et al. 2017)
Assembling the Seabed: Pan-European and Interdisciplinary Advances in Understanding Seabed Mining
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March 2023

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Kimberley Peters

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Klaas Willaert

This chapter deploys assemblage theory and thinking to bring together a unique set of insights on the seabed ranging from the ecological, to legal, practice to theoretical. It does so with a particular aim in mind: to integrate debates pertinent to understanding the frontier space of the sea floor. Whilst there are increasing calls for interdisciplinary integration in the marine sciences, combining the natural and social sciences research on the space of the seabed and its potential for mining tends to be siloed with work addressing component parts of such possible processes: ecosystem and ecosystem service aspects, legal dimensions, and geopolitical aspects, to name but a few. Whilst these contributions touch upon intersecting issues (society and environment; law and economics, and so on) they remained centered on particular disciplinary and scientific offerings to understanding the seabed and prospect of seabed mining. This chapter offers a thoroughly ‘joined up’ approach, which presents a prism through which to better understand the issues at stake in venturing to the new vertical frontiers of ocean extraction.

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Mining questions of ‘what’ and ‘who’: deepening discussions of the seabed for future policy and governance

July 2022

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Maritime Studies

In spite of a proliferation of academic and policy-oriented interest in deep sea mining (DSM), this paper argues that two underlying questions remain underexplored. The first relates to what exactly the seabed is; the second to who the stakeholders are. It is argued that a greater interrogation of how the seabed is defined and understood, and a deeper consideration of how stakeholders are identified and the politics of their inclusion, is crucial to the enactment of policy and planning techniques. Through the analysis of current regulations to govern DSM in both national and international jurisdictions, this paper critically examines these seemingly banal but vital questions in different contexts. It is contended that most regulations are ‘fuzzy’ when it comes to addressing these questions, with the result that different understandings of the seabed and the implications of mining are ignored and that who stakeholders are and how they are defined causes many relevant voices to be unheard. It is argued, therefore, that it is imperative to address these often-overlooked questions directly in order to inform future seabed policy and governance.


Authority in Ocean Governance Architecture

June 2022

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Politics and Governance

In this article, we demonstrate that the ocean is a space of politics and explore the what, who, and how of ocean governance. We first sketch the governance architecture and examine challenges and shortcomings concerning political authority. Starting from a definition of “ocean governance,” we highlight that two fundamentally different regulatory approaches are applied to the ocean: a spatial ordering on the one hand and a sectoral segmentation on the other. States are the central actors regulating the use and protection of marine areas, but state sovereignty is stratified, with diminishing degrees of authority farther from the shoreline. As vast marine spaces are beyond the exclusive control of any given territorial state, political authority beyond areas of national jurisdiction must first be created to enable collective decision-making. Consequently, a multitude of authorities regulate human activities in the ocean, producing overlaps, conflicting policies, and gaps. Based on recent contributions to the fast-growing ocean governance research field, we provide a thematic overview structured along the dimensions of maritime security, protection of the marine environment, and economics to unveil patterns of authority in ocean governance.


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... In this chapter, I ask whether a major issue in ocean governance may be an ontological one (see also Conde et al., 2022;Peters, 2020;Steinberg & Peters, 2015). Specifically, I ask whether existing ocean governance mechanisms too often take the spatial character of the ocean for granted, which ultimately act as forms of territorialisation and bordering by folding ocean space into the logic of national terrestrial space via what Elden would term the 'technology of territory' (Elden, 2013). ...

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Overdetermined by Territory? Governing the Ocean in Time, Matter, and Rhythm
Mining questions of ‘what’ and ‘who’: deepening discussions of the seabed for future policy and governance

Maritime Studies

... Ocean governance includes many elements, including the rules, policies, laws and institutions established by governmental and/or non-governmental actors at all levels of decision-making that govern any kind of activity related to the ocean (Mondréand Kuhn, 2022;Song et al., 2022). Ocean governance should be different because it has a different definition and scope (Cho, 2006). ...

Authority in Ocean Governance Architecture

Politics and Governance