INSTITUTIONS

Funding Entity

European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Main Research Unit

Trinity College Dublin

Partnerships

CHAM - Centro de Humanidades / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas/Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Universidade dos Açores

The Action, Oceans Past Platform (OPP), aims to measure and understand the significance and value to European societies of living marine resource extraction and production to help shape the future of coasts and oceans. The Integrative Platform will lower the barriers between human, social and natural sciences; multiply the learning capacity of research environments; and enable knowledge transfer and co-production among researchers and other societal actors, specifically by integrating historical findings of scale and intensity of resource use into management and policy frameworks.

The oceans offer rich resources for feeding a hungry world. However, the sea is an alien space in a sense that the land is not. Fishing requires skills that must be learnt, it presupposes culinary preferences, technical ability, knowledge of target species, and a backdrop of material and intangible culture. OPP asks when, how and with what socio-economic, political, cultural and ecological implications humans have impacted marine life, primarily in European seas in the last two millennia.

Goals

The main aim of the Action is to foster an interdisciplinary Integrative Platform to measure and understand the historical significance and value to European societies of living marine resource extraction (incl. fishing and mammal hunt) and production (incl. aquaculture) to help shape the future of coasts and oceans.

Working groups

WG1 - Trends in Production and Consumption

WG2 - Coastal settlements

WG3 – Aquaculture

WG4 - Changing values (economic and cultural) of marine life to society

WG5 - Gendered seas (the roles of men and women for the interaction with the sea)

Team

Cristina Brito (CHAM) . Coordenator

Poul Holm (Trinity College) . Coordenator

Links:

OPP_Video 1(Web)

WG1_Video 2(Web)

WG4_Video 3(Web)