Article Dans Une Revue Ocean and Coastal Research Année : 2021

The Mediterranean Sea we want

Margherita Cappelletto
Rosalia Santoleri
Lorenza Evangelista
Esther Garcés
Fabio Fava
Barak Herut
Karim Hilmi
Suzan Kholeif
Stefano Lorito
Cherif Sammari
Mónica Campillos Lianos
Mauro Celussi
Domenico D’alelio
Fedra Francocci
Giordano Giorgi
Donata Melaku Canu
Emanuele Organelli
Angela Pomaro
Gianmaria Sannino
Margarita Segou
Simona Simoncelli
Andrea Barbanti
Denis Chang-Seng
Vanessa Cardin
Raffaella Casotti
Aldo Drago
Souha El Asmi
Dina Eparkhina
Tatjiana Hema
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Gabriele Procaccini
Francesca Santoro
Michael Scoullos
Cosimo Solidoro
Fabio Trincardi
Leonardo Tunesi
Georg Umgiesser
Adriana Zingone
Tosca Ballerini
Amel Chaffai
Giovanni Coppini
Sieglin de Gruber
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Jelena Knezevic
Gaetano Leone
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Jerneja Penca
Nadia Pinardi
George Petihakis
Marie-Helen Rio
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Mohamed Said
Zacharias Siokouros
Abdellah Srour
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Maria Snoussi
Joaquín Tintoré
Vassiliki Vassilopoulou
  • Fonction : Auteur
Marco Zavatarelli

Résumé

This paper presents major gaps and challenges for implementing the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) in the Mediterranean region. The authors make recommendations on the scientific knowledge needs and co-design actions identified during two consultations, part of the Decade preparatory-phase, framing them in the Mediterranean Sea’s unique environmental and socio-economic perspectives. According to the ‘Mediterranean State of the Environment and Development Report 2020’ by the United Nations Environment Programme Mediterranean Action Plan and despite notable progress, the Mediterranean region is not on track to achieve and fully implement the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. Key factors are the cumulative effect of multiple human-induced pressures that threaten the ecosystem resources and services in the global change scenario. The basin, identified as a climate change vulnerability hotspot, is exposed to pollution and rising impacts of climate change. This affects mainly the coastal zones, at increasing risk of extreme events and their negative effects of unsustainable management of key economic assets. Transitioning to a sustainable blue economy is the key for the marine environment’s health and the nourishment of future generations. This challenging context, offering the opportunity of enhancing the knowledge to define science-based measures as well as narrowing the gaps between the Northen and Southern shores, calls for a joint (re)action. The paper reviews the state of the art of Mediterranean Sea science knowledge, sets of trends, capacity development needs, specific challenges, and recommendations for each Decade’s societal outcome. In the conclusions, the proposal for a Mediterranean regional programme in the framework of the Ocean Decade is addressed. The core objective relies on integrating and improving the existing ocean-knowledge, Ocean Literacy, and ocean observing capacities building on international cooperation to reach the “Mediterranean Sea that we want”.

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hal-04203686 , version 1 (11-09-2023)

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Margherita Cappelletto, Rosalia Santoleri, Lorenza Evangelista, Francois Galgani, Esther Garcés, et al.. The Mediterranean Sea we want. Ocean and Coastal Research, 2021, 69 (suppl 1), e21031 (39p.). ⟨10.1590/2675-2824069.21019mc⟩. ⟨hal-04203686⟩
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