Semestertopic „Ocean Sustainability“ WS 2014/15

Overview

In the winter term 2014/15, the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” will be presenting a series of lectures, workshops and side events on the topic „Ocean Sustainability“. The semester topic will offer platforms for information, dialogue and research on Ocean Sustainability for the public, experts and scientists, for stakeholders and civil society. The topic aims to address scientific questions related to the functions, uses, threats and governance of the world’s ocean and coasts as much as the fascination that the ocean and its coasts exert on humankind.

With this integrative topic, the Future Ocean wants to demonstrate how normative topics can become an integral part of marine sciences and makes marine scientists aware that there are norms and values implied in how humans perceive, utilize, pollute and protect the marine and coastal systems.

In various events we will address different target groups of the topic. The driving force behind the theme and all events will be the overarching goal to develop strategies for a sustainable use of the ocean and coasts. Thus, the topic aims at presenting the beauty, showing the risks we run into and offering room for discussions on solutions. Furthermore, trans-disciplinary networks inside and outside Future Ocean shall be developed and strengthened.

Ideas for activities include a lecture series in the winter term 2014/15 and an expert workshop on sustainability in 2015, the 350ies anniversary year of the university. Other activities may be added or initiated (e.g. with cultural institutions). 

Contact: Sigrid Keiser, skeiser@geomar.de

Lecture Series

The Changing Ocean: Challenges of the future

Weekly lecture series during the Winter Semester 2014/2015
Location: Audimax of Kiel University, Time: Thursdays, 18.00-20.00 pm

In the past several years the pressure on the oceans has risen constantly. The oceans, however, play a key role for life on earth. They regulate the climate, provide us with important resources and serve as a global means of transport. The oceans and coasts have a high aesthetic and cultural value and have been used for sports, leisure activities, as well as for relaxation and recreation since the rise of human civilization. .

Until the beginning of the 1970s use of the oceans was predominately quite careless. It seemed that marine resources were infinite and the oceans - it was assumed – would be able to withstand pollution because of their size. This mistake and the consequences of human-induced climate change have led us to a stage where the largest eco system on Earth, with its great diversity, is being threatened on a long-term scale.

The aim of the lecture series is to demonstrate the necessity to use the oceans in a more sustainable way and to discuss current approaches to further developments. For this cause, expertise from various disciplines and players in the areas of science, politics, economics and (civil) society will be brought together. In addition to questions of how people interfere in the system of the oceans and with what consequences, how the condition of the oceans can be assessed, who governs the ocean and what actions can be taken to protect the oceans, a part of the series of events will deal with aesthetic and cultural aspects of the oceans in society.

The series of lectures, organized by the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Schleswig-Holstein at Kiel University in the winter semester 2014/2015, is targeted both at colleagues and students of the university, as well as the interested public. The aim is to discuss possibilities and ways in which societal and economic change can succeed in protecting and preserving the richness and the beauty of the oceans for current and future generations..

www.boell-sh.de

The series of lectures will take place under the trademark “The Ocean, Our Blue Miracle”, an initiative of the German government in the framework of the “Development Plan for the Ocean”. The activities are being coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)..
www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Artikel/WS/meerespolitik-blaues-wunder.html?nn=36142

Flyer for the program of the lecture series (in German, pdf)

Program
28.10.2014, Blauer Reichtum: Die Bedeutung der Meere für Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft
Ort: Hörsaal A
Prof. Dr. Klaus Wallmann, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Prof. Dr. Martin Quaas, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Kiel
Vizeadmiral a.D. Lutz Feldt, Wise Pens International, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Jörg Polzer, Maritimes Cluster Norddeutschland / Kiel
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Lemper, Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik / Bremen
Moderation: Stefanie Schmidt, Ecologic Institut, Berlin

04.11.14, Ozeane in Gefahr: Warum sind die Meere bedroht?
Ort: Hörsaal A
Prof. Dr. Arne Körtzinger, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Dr. Tom Schumacher, Gesellschaftswissenschaften FB 03, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
Dr. Rainer Froese, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Nadja Ziebarth, BUND-Projektbüro Meeresschutz, Bremen
Moderation: Dr. Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Kiel

11.11.14, Governance des Ozeans: Wem gehört das Meer und wie wird es regiert?
Ort: Hörsaal A
Prof. Dr. Nele Matz-Lück
Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales Recht / Universität Kiel
Dr. Inge Kaul
Global Policy Studies / Berlin
Prof. Dr. Katrin Rehdanz
Institut für Weltwirtschaft / Universität Kiel
Staatssekretär Dr. Frank Nägele
Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Verkehr und Technologie des Landes Schleswig-Holstein / Kiel
Moderation: Sebastian Unger
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS) / Potsdam

18.11.14, Ozean der Zukunft: Nachhaltigkeit als Kompass?
Ort: Hörsaal A
Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott, Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Kiel
Jens Ambsdorf, Lighthouse Foundation, Kiel
Prof. Dr. Christoph Corves, Geographisches Institut, Universität Kiel
Norman Laws, Institut für Nachhaltigkeitssteuerung (INSUGO), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Moderation: Dr. Barbara Neumann, Geographisches Institut, Universität Kiel

25.11.14, Schutz des Ozeans: Maritime Raumplanung und Meeresschutzgebiete
Ort: Hörsaal A
Dr. Nico Nolte, Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Hamburg
Dr. Peter Breckling, Deutscher Fischerei-Verband e.V., Hamburg
Dr. Eva Philipp, Vattenfall Deutschland, Hamburg
Jochen Lamp, WWF Deutschland, Stralsund
Dr. Klaus Koßmagk-Stephan, Landesbetrieb für Küstenschutz, Nationalpark und Meeresschutz Schleswig-Holstein, Nationalparkverwaltung, Tönning
Moderation: Erik van Doorn, Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales Recht, Universität Kiel

02.12.11, Das Meer als Kulturraum
Ort: Hörsaal A
Prof. Dr. Arne Zerbst, Präsident der Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
Dr. Wilhelm Knelangen, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Kiel
Klaus Ahrens, Helge Haacke und Christian Galonska,
AG GeoMedien / Universität Kiel
Dr. Inez Linke, Oceanwell, Kiel
Moderation: Dr. Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Kiel

09.12.14, Mensch – Meer – Nachhaltigkeit: Die Meerespolitik vor neuen Herausforderungen
Ort: Frederik-Paulsen-Hörsaal
Dr. Robert Habeck, Stellvertretender Ministerpräsident und Minister für Energiewende, Landwirt-schaft, Umwelt und ländliche Räume, Kiel
Dirk Lindenau, Ingenieur für maritime Projekte und ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Lindenau-Werft, Kiel
Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Thilo Maack, Greenpeace, Hamburg
Moderation: Dirk Scheelje, Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft, Kiel
Musik: Nora Piske-Förster

Flyer for the program of the lecture series (in German, pdf)