Marine Ecosystem Governance in the Making : Planning for petroleum activity in the Barents Sea-Lofoten area

• Main Author: Knol, Maaike
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2011
• Subjects: VDP::Social science: 200::Sociology: 220; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosiologi: 220; Ecosystem-based management; marine governance; petroleum industry; risk and uncertainty; science and technology studies; environmental sociology; Barents Sea; Norway; Environmental planning and management; Marine spatial planning; Lofoten
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/3111

The Papers in this thesis are not available in Munin: 1.Knol, Maaike: 'Scientific advice in integrated ocean management : The process towards the Barents Sea plan', Marine Policy 34 (2): 252-260 (publishers' restriction). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2009.07.009 2. Knol, Maaike: 'Mapping ocean governance : From ecological values to policy instrumentation' (accepted manuscript version). Published version: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 54, No. 7, September 2011, 979–995, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2010.547686 3. Knol, Maaike: 'Constructing knowledge gaps in Barents Sea management : How uncertainties become objects of risk', MAST 9(1): 61-79 (Publishers' restriction). 4. Knol, Maaike: 'The uncertainties of precaution : Zero discharges in the Barents Sea', Marine Policy Volume 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 399-404 (Publishers' restriction). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.018 Expanding petroleum activity in the Barents Sea-Lofoten area has worked as a catalyst for the development and introduction of the first integrated, ecosystem-based management plan in Norway. This plan sets the framework, in particular, for further petroleum activities. Building on Science and Technology Studies (STS) this thesis provides an analysis of the practices and instrumentation of marine ecosystem governance, which encompasses the broader dynamics around the introduction of integrated, ecosystem-based management. It follows processes of co-production at the science-policy interface and analyzes how scientific knowledge is mobilized and translated into governance practices and policy instrumentation for the regulation of oil and gas activities and their related risks and uncertainties. While the thorough expert processes are characterized by a focus on integrated natural scientific knowledge production, the political implementation of marine ecosystem governance is characterized by the introduction of rather general, rigid policy measures. This comes to ...