Social-ecological systems in coastal and marine environments

Our research group is aimed to develop knowledge on coastal and marine sustainability by focusing on modern interdisciplinary social-ecological research. Its final goal is to provide a solid scientific basis to solve concrete present problems of sustainability inside our today’s social-ecological paradigm. In order to do that, the team members strongly interact with other different interdisciplinary groups of research. The group is developing research and applications in the frontier between social and natural systems, how they work and interact, how to cope with present and emerging, local and global environmental problems and the role, if any, that science and regulations might play in it. Our most basic topics of research include social-ecological research, sustainable exploitation of living marine resources, conservational issues, operational oceanography, systems functionality and ocean and coastal management .