Braiding Knowledge Systems for Transforming Governance

One day before the launch of the 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress, IMPAC5, scientists and communities’ representatives working on sustainable marine socio-ecosystems across different regions are invited to discuss the key challenges of knowledge co-creation on marine biodiversity.

How can we leverage different forms of knowledge for the management of sustainable and non-sustainable marine resource extraction and for marine biodiversity conservation? Should we aim for knowledge hybridization? What is the political meaning of being "researchers" or "indigeneous community representatives" knowledge holders? How can science contribute to developing adaptive governance structures and resilient management systems locally?

Our objective will be to mobilize a variety of expertise and perspectives to develop guidelines for the co-creation of ocean knowledge for biodiversity conservation.

The event is organized by the ApoliMer research group (UMR LIENSs CNRS, La Rochelle University) in collaboration with Sea Around Us (University of British Columbia), the French Embassy in Canada, the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability (University of Ottawa), Simon Fraser University, and the Ocean Decade Collaborative Center for the Northeast Pacific.

Panelists

Panel 1 : Knowledges & governance in British Columbia : How to teach co-design to the next generation of scientists with Kii'iljuus Barbara Wilson, Andrea Reid and Anne Salomon

Panel 2 : Polynesian traditional management of resources & territories : Co-designing research in a French “overseas” territory with Tamatoa Bambridge, Patrick Rochette and Alexander Mawyer

Panel 3 : Co-designing across scales : risks & potentials of larger scale initiatives in frameworks such as the Ocean Decade with Nicole Smith and Claudia Baron-Aguilar

Inspiring Early Careers :

Screening of the documentary El Pueblo Es El Mar with the film director, Dr Veronica Relano, who will present how documentary filmmaking can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities related to local communities' adaptation to marine biodiversity loss, starting a conversation in the small community living around a poorly managed MPA in Pantagonia.

PhD student Justine Bouquier will present the potential of game-based capacity building for traditional knowledge circulation and for the undestanding and application of the existing international standards with regards to ethical knowledge sharing and use that respects Indigenous sovereignty. 

Accessibility

This event will be held at the Morris J. Wosk Center for Dialogue and online, using the Zoom Webinar platform. A link will be sent in advance of the event, accessible through browser or phone.

Land Acknowledgment

We respectfully acknowledge that the event takes place on the Unceded, Traditional, Ancestral Territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations.

Event's image : Clam Garden on British Columbia’s Central Coast - Photo by Keith Holmes, Hakai Institute