Wicked Waters: Strengthening a Leading Research Environment for Wicked Problems in Green and Sustainable Maritime Governance in the Nordics
Wicked Waters is a network project focusing on the consequences of maritime activity and how ‘Blue Growth’ demands regulatory tools that secure green and sustainable results.
About the research project
Humankind is currently dealing with the most wicked problem: how can we ensure social and economic growth while preserving the environment and slowing and limiting the adverse effects of climate change? These changes are affecting our seas and oceans with growing pressure. More natural resources are extracted (fisheries, energy), sea spaces are more occupied as a consequence, and competing uses and interests create clashes. Traditional legal tools are proving to be insufficient or nonexistent.
Wicked Waters will help generating new legal research to develop critical legal tools and academic theoretical frameworks in maritime green and sustainable governance. A focus on maritime green and sustainable governance, combining environmental aspects with industrial sea uses, and the support to develop a research network and PhD educational activities will cement the position of our Research Group as a leading environment in these fields in the Nordics. Long-term will create a solid basis to support, plan and execute long-term, group-based projects & funding proposals, expand our membership and facilitate the growth of our Faculty. It will also strengthen our collaboration, ties, and exchanges with our student community.
Activities
The research network will benefit a community of 22 researchers (permanent and non-permanent) by creating ties with international research communities and training the next generation of researchers in our field focus. Wicked Waters combines network and team-building activities (conferences, hybrid seminars, student-oriented activities, administrative support, and dissemination funds) and a PhD training and dissemination program offered to PhD candidates in Norway and the Nordics part of the non-structured PhD education, giving ECTS for the activities undertaking.
Network projects
Five network projects at the Faculty of Law received support from the Research Council following JUREVAL.
As a follow-up to JUREVAL, The Research Council of Norway announced funding in 2022 for network activities organized by research groups at the evaluated institutions. The aim was to strengthen academic development and renewal, particularly in connection with research on regulatory developments to address key societal challenges.
Institutions could also apply for funding to develop or establish national PhD courses. A prerequisite for receiving funding was that the research groups had specific plans to develop a project proposal for national or international funders by the end of the project period.
People
Project manager
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui Professor
