@ocn-uib
A research project interrogating hegemonic narratives in ocean environmental crime. The project focuses on cultural, legal, and scientific discourse from literature, cinema, political ecology, criminology and oceanography https://ocn.uib.eu/
🌍 The #EJAtlas: Mapping Global Movements for Environmental Justice
Our ICTA-UAB researcher Marcel Llavero-Pasquina will be in Amsterdam next week for an in-person talk at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on environmental conflicts, extractivism & resistance.
🗓️ Feb 5 | 16:00–17:00
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Cati Torres, Ecological economist at the @uib.cat. Co-founder of LINCC-UIB & president of the Spanish Critical Economics Cultural Association. Her research focuses on resource scarcity, energy transition limits, tourism metabolism, and the socio-ecological impacts of industrial civilization.
Nigel South, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex. Leading figure in Green and Blue Criminology, co-author of key works on environmental crime. Recipient of Lifetime and Outstanding Achievement awards from the American and British Societies of Criminology.
@elenaojea.bsky.social Environmental scientist at CIM–University of Vigo and lead of the Future Oceans Lab. Expert in climate change adaptation in marine systems. Lead Author of the IPCC AR6 (Oceans) and member of the Blue Food Futures science committee.
🌊 Exciting news!
We have the confirmation of more keynote speakers for the upcoming conference "Seas of consequences: Social and Natural Science Narratives on Environmental Harm and Crime at sea". Meet the speakers at: ocn.uib.eu/conference-p...
Yesterday we launched the UIB Ecosocial Discussions, an open space for dialogue from the humanities and the sciences on today’s ecological and social challenges.
First session focused on The Intrinsic Value of Nature.
Next session: Extractivism, Feb 20, 2025.
#Ecosocial @uib.cat @erc.europa.eu
Call for Posters & Registrations Open!!!
Check the invited confirmed speakers here: ocn.uib.eu/conference-p...
Aina Vidal-Pérez publishes the article “Mediterraneanism Meets Global Ethics: A Poetic and Material Analysis of The Island of Missing Trees” in Literature Compass
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Material narratives of the Sea: What is in the Sea?" Today Laia Ventayol will present part of her PhD at @uib.cat
You can follow it online! blocs.uib.cat/licetc/2025/...
Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
New paper "Going to Sea Inland: Fishwomen’s Social Capital in Contemporary Fishing Communities of Mallorca (Spain)" by Ariana Domínguez Garcia. brill.com/display/book...
Check out the new paper by @estebanmorelle.com “Molecular genetics as evidence of environmental harm in ecocriminological analysis” open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-244
“Contemporary Narratives of Mediterranean Tourism” cluster of essays edited by @ainavidalpe.bsky.social in Primerjalna književnost ojs-gr.zrc-sazu.si/primerjalna_... @uib.cat
Chek out the new paper “The climate change-migrant smuggling nexus. Smuggling services as the only way to reach Europe” by @manuelcabezas.bsky.social in Global Green Crime and Ecojustice link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Hay narrativas que justifican injusticias y fallan en lograr los objetivos de sostenibilidad. Este es el caso de la problematica de los cierres a la pesca de fondo de areas donde puede haber ecosistemas marinos vulnerables. Genial resumen de nuestros compañeros del @ieo.es
🌊 Speaker Spotlight #4: Christelle Not, Oceanography | University of Hong Kong. Studies human impacts on oceans & climate, focusing on plastic pollution—its sources, fate & effects on marine ecosystems. #OceanCrime #PlasticPollution
🌊 Speaker Spotlight #2: Joe Silem Enlet, Political Ecology | URI. Micronesian scholar studying Indigenous political ecology, ocean governance & small-scale fisheries. Works on tuna management, sustainability & community-based marine policy. #OceanCrime #IndigenousKnowledge
🌊 Speaker Spotlight #5: Ascensión García Ruiz, Criminal Law | UCM. Works on environmental crime, Green Criminology, climate migration, corporate criminal responsibility & Ecocide under international law. #OceanCrime #BlueJustice
🌊 Speaker Spotlight #3: Katherine Sammler, Geography | Independent Researcher. Explores the politics of oceans & outer space, seabed mining, biodiversity governance, spaceports & orbital habitats through political ecology & feminist STS. #OceanCrime #PoliticalEcology
🌊 Speaker Spotlight #1: Daniel Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social , Anthropology | ICTA, UAB. Expert on social impacts of conservation, eviction from protected areas, natural resource politics & Conservation Data Justice (ERC 2022). #OceanCrime #Conservation
Foto: Laia Ventayol
🌊 Exciting news!
We’re thrilled to announce that several of our international keynote speakers have now been confirmed for the upcoming conference "Seas of consequences: Social and Natural Science Narratives on Environmental Harm and Crime at sea". Meet the speakers at: ocn.uib.eu/conference-p...
Foto: Juan David Cortes. Cortesía de Casa Planas
Foto: Juan David Cortes. Cortesía de Casa Planas
Foto: Juan David Cortes. Cortesía de Casa Planas
Del pas pel I Congrés del #ObservatoriCOSTA sobre Turisme i Cultura Sostenible amb la ponència "Taxonomía y biodiversidad marina en el arte: especies dominantes, vulnerabilidad ecológica e imaginarios en el Mediterráneo"
@ocn-uib.bsky.social @uib.cat
Participating in our #GES4SEAS #MarinArt challenge, submitting marine mural photos, you can contribute to better understand the sea and earn a prize. We have murals from 17 countries, help us to extend the number
#marineecology
#research
"Las mujeres en los espacios liminales de la pesca: relaciones de género, prácticas económicas y sociales en la Lonja de Pescado del puerto de Palma", Ariana Domínguez García will present part of her PhD research @uib.cat
Nov 21st, 4pm, follow it online at: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3538965...
🔹 Submit a poster proposal or register to attend (in-person or online)!
Let’s connect disciplines to better understand — and protect — our oceans. 🌐💙
#OceanCrimeNarratives #ERCProject #Oceans #InterdisciplinaryResearch #ClimateChange
The event brings together up to 12 invited speakers to explore how science, law, and public policy shape narratives around:
• marine resource exploitation
• toxic & plastic pollution
• climate change impacts on ocean ecosystems
• sustainability & human rights
Foto: Laia Ventayol
🌊 Call for Posters & Registration Open!
We’re thrilled to announce our international interdisciplinary conference Seas of Consequences (UIB, Palma | 15–17 April 2026).
👉 ocn.uib.es/internationa...
Aquesta setmana al I Congrés del #ObservatoriCOSTA sobre Turisme i Cultura Sostenible, a @casaplanas amb la xerrada "Taxonomía y biodiversidad marina en el arte: especies dominantes, vulnerabilidad ecológica e imaginarios en el Mediterráneo"
Denunciar per la via penal els responsables de grans iots que arrasen praderies de posidònia.
És una de les propostes que ha traslladat el professor Esteban Morelle-Hungría al Fòrum Marí d’Eivissa i Formentera. ↘️
"‘Our fish are not your marine biodiversity’: tensions in integrating fisheries into the BBNJ Agreement”
New paper out lead by Solomon Sebuliba in npj Ocean Sustainbility journal @natureportfolio.nature.com: “
www.nature.com/articles/s44...