Futures for the Salish Sea: Opportunities for Connection, Collaboration, and Cooperation in Our Multinational Shared Waters
Presentation Abstract
What will the Salish Sea look and feel like in 5 years, 50 years, 500 years, and beyond? Will we choose to work together across disciplines, cultures, jurisdictions, and borders today to make collective changes for a more resilient tomorrow across the Salish Sea? Can we liberate ourselves from extractive and pollution-based economies to support a healthy sea and connected watersheds for all beings who call this place home? Can we fully apply multidisciplinary science and Indigenous ways of knowing to critical policy decisions for our shared waters and shared futures? This panel addresses these questions and opportunities outlined in the State of the Salish Sea (2021) report. Panelists will share about pilot and established initiatives that push conventional boundaries to open different habits, systems, and support for collaborative and transdisciplinary work together. We’ll explore how to develop culturally relevant, ecologically resilient, and politically creative practices to spark change in our collective relationships with the lands and waters of the Salish Sea. As documented in the State of the Salish Sea report, the Salish Sea is compromised by the cumulative impacts of global climate change, regional urbanization and a growing population, and intensive use and abuse across the ecosystem over the last two centuries of colonial governance and industrial development. Ecosystem decline has outpaced restoration and protection. Layers of laws, treaties (and lack of treaties), regulations, and jurisdictions make for a complicated and even fragmented approach to Salish Sea governance. How can we right our course toward more functional and collaborative futures? After sharing short presentations about intersections and innovations in multidisciplinary science, law, policy, and governance, this panel will invite conference attendees to share visions and solutions that can bring to life a more just, resilient, connected, and thriving Salish Sea for future generations.
Session Title
Collaborative Futures for the Salish Sea (Panel)
Conference Track
SSE7: Ethics, Environmental Justice, & the Future
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2022 : Online)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE-panels-462
Start Date
27-4-2022 1:30 PM
End Date
27-4-2022 3:00 PM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Human ecology--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Environmental protection--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)--Environmental conditions
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Futures for the Salish Sea: Opportunities for Connection, Collaboration, and Cooperation in Our Multinational Shared Waters
What will the Salish Sea look and feel like in 5 years, 50 years, 500 years, and beyond? Will we choose to work together across disciplines, cultures, jurisdictions, and borders today to make collective changes for a more resilient tomorrow across the Salish Sea? Can we liberate ourselves from extractive and pollution-based economies to support a healthy sea and connected watersheds for all beings who call this place home? Can we fully apply multidisciplinary science and Indigenous ways of knowing to critical policy decisions for our shared waters and shared futures? This panel addresses these questions and opportunities outlined in the State of the Salish Sea (2021) report. Panelists will share about pilot and established initiatives that push conventional boundaries to open different habits, systems, and support for collaborative and transdisciplinary work together. We’ll explore how to develop culturally relevant, ecologically resilient, and politically creative practices to spark change in our collective relationships with the lands and waters of the Salish Sea. As documented in the State of the Salish Sea report, the Salish Sea is compromised by the cumulative impacts of global climate change, regional urbanization and a growing population, and intensive use and abuse across the ecosystem over the last two centuries of colonial governance and industrial development. Ecosystem decline has outpaced restoration and protection. Layers of laws, treaties (and lack of treaties), regulations, and jurisdictions make for a complicated and even fragmented approach to Salish Sea governance. How can we right our course toward more functional and collaborative futures? After sharing short presentations about intersections and innovations in multidisciplinary science, law, policy, and governance, this panel will invite conference attendees to share visions and solutions that can bring to life a more just, resilient, connected, and thriving Salish Sea for future generations.
