In a rapidly urbanized world, coastal cities are key arenas for the challenges encountered by coastal communities in the context of sustainable transformations. Among the landscapes most vulnerable to climate impacts and biodiversity loss, urbanized coastlines see heightened frictions between urban transformation, environmental (in)justice, and the unequal politics of coastal planning. Key habitats that could e...
Coastal environments are increasingly positioned as sites of innovation through living labs and nature-based solutions. Yet disabled people remain largely excluded from these experimental practices, their participation constrained by technocratic design paradigms and normative assumptions about perception, mobility, and independence. Drawing on empirical research with visually impaired people in UK blue spaces,...
This article presents a conceptual framework that integrates the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle with co-creation practices in transformative sustainability research. While both LNOB and co-creation are central to international policy agendas, they are often applied separately, limiting their potential to address systemic inequities. To bridge this gap, we developed a framework based on a rapid evidence as...
This article examines how small-scale fishing cooperatives on Mexico’s northern Pacific coast integrate technologies into community-based marine governance. Drawing on ethnographic research with cooperatives in Baja California Sur, it asks how oceanographic sensors are used, adapted, and made meaningful in citizen science and co-constructed governance practices, and what that reveals about empowerment and blue ...
This study analyses and evaluates an early-stage, pre-intervention phase in Åland’s small-scale fisheries community and examines the usefulness of a mixed-methods approach. It focuses on how combining three complementary methods supports the development of a grounded and legitimate pilot, rather than assessing pilot outcomes. The study applies a mixed-method approach combining a governance audit, community stak...