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.

A recently published paper reports the findings of a workshop which explored the views of research and practitioners from across the marine social science disciplines. It sets out an international research agenda and identifies mechanisms of change and pathways to enable inclusion of marine social science within global ocean policy.

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