The research foci of CDT SuMMeR will be:
- building resilient marine and coastal social-ecological systems (example sub-themes: coastal protection, adaptation, nature-based solutions, marine risk and insurance)
- delivering Net Zero and energy security (mitigation, offshore renewables, blue carbon)
- integrating ocean and human health (marine pollution, blue health, blue food, food and nutritional security, coastal communities)
- enabling biodiversity gains (Marine protected areas (MPAs), restoration, rewilding, conservation of biodiversity outside of MPAs)
- future-smart marine governance, policy and law (inclusive institutions, scenarios, marine spatial planning, decision support tools, modelling, marine citizenship, human values into decision-making)
- fostering a sustainable and just blue economy (natural capital accounting, circular ocean economy, human rights, distributive justice, sustainable transitions and financing)
- marine technology and exploration (autonomy, monitoring, citizen science, media/communication).
