Overview

Reversing the decline of ocean health and taking meaningful action on climate change requires empowering all stakeholders and rightsholders – including youth – to help develop and implement adaptative and equitable solutions. This project approaches this issue from an informational justice perspective, emphasizing the right by all to access information and knowledge, have equal opportunity to directly participate in the production and dissemination of information and knowledge, and have their identities and culture be recognized, respected, and fairly represented in the informational world. This project also addresses the issue by using a socio-constructivist epistemological approach to the relationship with knowledge, to generate genuine eco-citizen engagement of young people. Guided by this framework, this research addresses the fundamental question of how we can improve knowledge production, exchange, and use among diverse actors to build an understanding of ocean and climate change that enables societal mobilization towards a sustainable future.

Research benefits

Explore the global ocean-climate research landscape and investigate complex public-decision-making processes;
Empower youth to make deeper connections, tell their stories, and transform their civic agency relating to the climate and ocean;
Showcase art as an expression for action, an opportunity for education, and a tool for exploration to learn how empowerment is understood and operationalized;
Develop tools to facilitate educators' and other stakeholders' discovery and engagement with the scholarly literature.