Drawing on the expertise of marine researchers from both the natural and social sciences, this book examines how we, as both scientists and societies, can return to a sustainable co-existence with the ocean and use the tools of transdisciplinarity to bring together the diverse forms of knowledge needed to achieve this important task.

Sílvia Gómez is Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on marine science from a transdisciplinary approach.

Vera Köpsel is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Whilst her background is in human geography, she now focuses her work on marine social science and exchange with non-academic actors.

Part 1: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES 1. The Multifaceted Picture of Transdisciplinarity in Marine Research 2. Empty Oceans - Humanizing Ocean and Seascapes for Building Transdisciplinary Knowledge and Practice 3. Co-Production of Knowledge as Production of Space: How We All Give Meaning to the Sea 4. Transformation Through Participation: Democratising the Human-Ocean Relationship
Part 2: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES 5. Using Bayesian Belief Networks and Participatory Action Research to Improve Stakeholder Engagement 6. Assessing the 'Professionalisation' of Marine Citizen Science 7. The Power and Precarity of Knowledge Co-Production: A Case Study of Skkijânginnaniattut Nunatsiavut Sivunitsangit (The Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project). 8. Stakeholders' Normative Notions of Sustainability. A Survey for the Co-design of a Sustainable Future of the Western Baltic Fishery System Part 3: INSIGHTS FROM THE CASE STUDIES 9. Small-scale fishers' knowledge for ocean sustainability: an ethnography in Setúbal, Portugal 10. Characterization and vulnerabilities of fisheries within a coastal lagoon in Uruguay: a participatory approach 11. Dialogue of knowledge for the assessment of the impacts of the oil spill disaster on the Brazilian coast in 2019 12. The Marine Reserve of fishing interest at Cape Roche (Conil, Spain): Transdisciplinarity and academic challenges of a conflictive process Part 4: WAYS FORWARD FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARY OCEAN SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT 13. Aiming for the next level of transdisciplinary marine research Part 5: CLOSING REMARKS 14. Towards a new culture of reflexive and diverse marine transdisciplinarity