Institutional integration: addressing overlaps and gaps in ocean governance

Oran R. Young

Chapter 10 in A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance, 2025, pp 109-120 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: While the ocean governance complex has a stable core articulated in the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, it also includes a sizable and growing array of operational arrangements dealing with functionally and/or spatially delimited issues. Dealing with institutional overlaps requires resolving conflicts and taking advantage of complementarities among these operational arrangements. The challenge of addressing gaps, by contrast, arises from interactions between ocean governance and governance systems addressing other issue domains (e.g., the climate governance complex). Institutional integration in the case of overlaps is fundamentally a matter of working out mutually acceptable agreements among those who accept a common constitutive framework. In the case of gaps, by contrast, institutional integration will require more fundamental adjustments in the way we think about atmospheric, marine, and terrestrial issues as elements in an overarching discourse of planetary governance. Progress in dealing with institutional integration in the case of ocean governance will be of distinct interest to those wrestling with similar challenges in other issue domains.

Keywords: Governance Complex; Constitutive Core; Operational Measures; Planetary Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035325740
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