Science, scale and the frontier of governing mobile marine species

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ID4388239
AuthorsElizabeth Havice (0000-0003-0760-2082), Lisa M Campbell (0000-0001-8731-3699), Amy Braun (0000-0002-6116-3597)
Year2018
Volume68
Issue229-230
Pages273-289
Publication date2018-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/issj.12166
OpenAlexW2906422878
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited50

Marine turtles have complex life histories and make expansive migrations over their long lifetimes, often through multiple states' exclusive economic zones and areas beyond national jurisdiction. This complexity makes it difficult to "know" marine turtles and presents jurisdictional mismatches for existing state and inter-state bodies that govern turtles. This paper examines how scientists tasked with assessing marine turtles for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species have used their scientific expertise to make marine turtles legible for governance, including by rescaling the Red List assessment process to include both global and regional levels. We find that in this rescaling project, marine turtle scientists have created two new objects of governance: spatially bounded "regional management units" and the scientists themselves, who have begun to sort themselves and their work around the new spatial units in the interest of generating progress in ocean conservation. More broadly, the story of the IUCN Red List process for sea turtles turns attention to the work of science and scientists in making oceans resources legible, and therefore governable, even when they defy the boundaries of state-led regulatory bodies or jurisdictional spaces

Archaeology · Biology · Business · Cartography · Corporate governance · Environmental resource management · Expansive · Fishery · Frontier · Geography · IUCN Red List · Jurisdiction · Marine conservation · Political science · Scale (ratio) · Sea turtle · State (computer science) · Turtle (robot) · Work (physics) · Zoning · Computer Science · Ecology · Engineering · Environmental Science · Law · Turtle Biology and Conservation · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

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