BBNJ treaty negotiations
The second Intergovernmental Conferene (IGCII) started on March 25th and lasted until April 5th 2019 in New York City. I once again was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the negotiations as an observer, and along with my colleagues Elizabeth Nyman, Elizabeth Mendenhall and Elizabeth De Santo, we spent two weeks gathering data, interviewing participants, developing a database of delegate and NGO/IGO interventions, and writing on articles together. It was exhaustive – as per usual – but also every rewarding in terms of not only data gathering but also in terms of experience with following negotiations, and learning more about the informal rules of the game – as…
ISA conference in Toronto, Canada
The International Studies Association held its annual meeting in Toronto, Canada this year – from the 26th – 30th of March 2019. It was a fun experience as always – and I presented two papers together with my colleague here at Texas A&M University at Galveston, Assistant Professor Elizabeth Nyman. I have gone to this conference for 12 years though, since 2007 – and only missed it twice in these years. It is therefore by .far my favorite conference and I love going there – and I have so many great memories of going there and presenting with the Oceans and Fish people that always .go there as well. This…
New Article published in Marine Policy!
Have you ever wondered what multi-trophic aquaculture is? Or have you wondered if there are any environmentally safe options for ensuring a more sustainable aquaculture industry, which in turn would aid in Norway reaching target 14.1 of SDG 14: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution. My newest article is written by my PhD student John Ellis – who is living in Santa Barbara, California, while pursuing a PhD from NTNU – my alma mater. He is a very talented researcher and has worked on this article with rigor and I am very happy with the…
Instagram – come follow me there too!
So – I made a separate Instagram account for my work travels because I want to remove that part of my life from my private life (and instagram account) – so if you are on Instagram and want to see pictures from not only my work travels but from work in general – my name there is @researchermomonthemove – not very short or sweet – but WanderingReseracher in any kind of form was already taken 🙂
Getting ready for the 2nd round of BBNJ negotiations in NYC
My ISA colleagues and I are planning to attend the second round of negotiations on biodiversity protection in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) under UNCLOS in March-April 2019 – and the planning has started. These are the same women that I have now published in the Washington Posts MonkeyCage as well as in Marine Policy with – we informally call ourselves Rachel and the three Elizabeths 🙂 We are all members of the International Studies Association (ISA), which is an NGO accredited to the ECOSOC. This association allows for the distribution of grounds passes for their members, and they can have their members registered as observers to certain UN meetings…
Book chapter in volume on Ocean Governance
My colleague from the Regimes project, Dorothy Dankel, and I recently had published a book chapter in a book called Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas published by Cambridge. Citation for book: Harris, P. (Ed.). (2019). Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108502238 Climate Change and Ocean Governance brings together authors from political science and cognate disciplines to examine the political and policy dimensions of climate change for our oceans. The environmental, social and economic consequences of oceanic change present tremendous challenges for governments and other actors. New and innovative policies for governing oceans and seas –…
A skip, a hop and a dash to Belgium and Greece for a week
January was a crazy month with the Horizon2020 project COASTAL that I am project leader on for SINTEF Ocean, and that I lead a work package on. The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It involves a unique multi-actor collaboration of coastal and rural business entrepreneurs, administrations, stakeholders, and natural and social science experts where the aim is to formulate and evaluate business solutions and policy recommendations that in time may improving the coastal-rural synergy and thereby foster rural and coastal development, while still preserving the environment. My role in the project is to lead WP1 on the Multi Actor Analysis. The…
When school shootings become real
I followed the Columbine shooting in Colorado spring of 1999. Of course I did. I was living in Minneapolis, doing my BA in Political Science at the U of M Twin Cities, living with my best friend Mariann and the man who was to later become my husband, Arild, in a dingy apartment near campus and we were watching it from our living room which had a mice problem but that was ours nonetheless – and we were shocked and saddened. I saw Bowling for Columbine that came out in 2002, at which time my husband and I had moved back to Norway, with our then 1 year old son William.…
SHARE this questionnaire! You could win an iPad!
Please help me – fill out this questionnaire for the GoJelly project on perceptions of jellyfish and microplastics – Bonus – you could win one of five ipads! QUESTIONNAIRE LINK It should not take you more than 6-10 minutes to fill it out and I really want as many answers as possible so please share the survey as well – especially if you know any commercial fishers, or people from the tourism industry or similar. You can find more information about the GoJelly project here – our aim is to develop a solution to plastic pollution that exploits the jellyfish blooms experienced globally and using this as a resource for…
The Once and Future Treaty – newest published article
This is an article that is written by myself and my now three most favorite co-authors from my BBNJ adventures in New York City earlier this school year and it was available online today November 10th 2018. My coauthors are: Elizabeth De Santo Elizabeth Mendenhall Elizabeth Nyman You can download it for free until the end of the year – so hurry up and get your copy before it is no longer open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X18307048?dgcid=coauthor The articles abstract is as follows: The current regime governing Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ) as a global commons has resulted in overutilization of fisheries resources and patchwork attempts to regulate resource extraction. States are looking to…
