Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically been lacking. As efforts to address the substantial and diverse challenges facing marine and coastal environments continue, recent years have seen a growing call for greater consideration of people, how they interact with the marine environment, and the resultant implications for developing effective policy and management. Indeed, in recent times recognition of the importance of marine social science research, data, evidence and expertise has undergone an upward trajectory. Despite this growing level of awareness of the value of social science to the wider marine and coastal management agenda, effective and meaningful inclusion of marine social science into research and practice has remained a challenge. Here we approach this global challenge as an opportunity to bring the community together to set a forward-looking international research agenda, recognising the role of multiple approaches and diverse methods understanding the relationship between society and the sea, galvanising the research and practice community across marine social sciences and beyond. Furthermore, by bringing together this increasingly active community, we can identify mechanisms of change and pathways to enable inclusion of marine social sciences within global ocean policy. This paper draws on the views of researchers and practitioners from across the marine social science disciplines, brought together through an expert workshop held at the MARE 2019 conference (June 2019) and representing a range of geographical regions and perspectives. Through the workshop, delegates identified a number of priorities for the ongoing development of the marine social science community, including the need to improve capacity for marine social science research globally, the importance of nurturing an inclusive and equitable marine social science research community and the role of networks to continue to raise the profile of marine social science data and evidence for global ocean policy and management. Additionally, the discussions provided valuable insight into existing knowledge gaps and potential research priorities for the future. Finally, the paper presents a future vision and recommendations for an international and interdisciplinary marine social science agenda, calling for collaborative and strategic thinking on marine social sciences from across the marine science and policy interface. Critically, we show how social science needs to be embedded in all aspects of marine and coastal management in order to create truly sustainable solutions to the pervasive environmental challenges we face.

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海洋社会科学：展望可持续的未来

海洋和沿海环境提供了广泛而必不可少的生态系统服务，而这正是人类赖以生存的重要因素，但历史上一直缺乏将人的因素纳入海洋和沿海政策和管理的做法。随着应对海洋和沿海环境面临的实质性和多样化挑战的努力继续进行，近年来越来越多的人呼吁更多地考虑人，他们如何与海洋环境相互作用，以及由此产生的对制定有效政策和管理的影响。事实上，近来对海洋社会科学研究、数据、证据和专业知识重要性的认识已呈上升趋势。尽管社会科学对更广泛的海洋和沿海管理议程的价值的认识不断提高，将海洋社会科学有效和有意义地纳入研究和实践仍然是一个挑战。在这里，我们将这一全球挑战视为一个机会，将社区聚集在一起制定具有前瞻性的国际研究议程，认识到理解社会与海洋之间关系的多种方法和不同方法的作用，激发整个海洋的研究和实践社区社会科学及其他领域。此外，通过将这个日益活跃的社区聚集在一起，我们可以确定变化机制和途径，以便将海洋社会科学纳入全球海洋政策。本文借鉴了来自海洋社会科学学科的研究人员和从业人员的观点，通过在 MARE 2019 会议（2019 年 6 月）举行的专家研讨会聚集在一起，代表了一系列地理区域和观点。通过讲习班，代表们确定了海洋社会科学界持续发展的若干优先事项，包括提高全球海洋社会科学研究能力的必要性、培育包容和公平的海洋社会科学研究界的重要性以及网络以继续提高海洋社会科学数据和全球海洋政策和管理证据的知名度。此外，讨论提供了对现有知识差距和未来潜在研究重点的宝贵见解。最后，该文件提出了国际和跨学科海洋社会科学议程的未来愿景和建议，呼吁跨海洋科学和政策界面对海洋社会科学进行协作和战略思考。至关重要的是，我们展示了社会科学需要如何融入海洋和沿海管理的各个方面，以便为我们面临的普遍环境挑战创造真正可持续的解决方案。