The only global integrated assessment of the world’s ocean covering environmental, economic and social aspects, compiled by over 650 experts from around the world.
The Third World Ocean Assessment (WOA III) is the only global integrated assessment of the world’s ocean covering environmental, economic and social aspects. Drawing on the work of more than 650 experts, the Assessment gives governments, researchers and decision-makers the evidence base they need to act.
The first World Ocean Assessment (WOA I) provided the first baseline study of the United Nations General Assembly on the state of the marine environment.
The second World Ocean Assessment (WOA II) provided an update to that baseline study.
Building on its predecessors, WOA III provides:
CSDR Director, Eliza Northrop is a lead author of Chapter 4 on Tourism. This chapter examines tourism's relationship with the ocean — from large-scale international travel to the community-based tourism that sustains livelihoods across small island states and coastal communities worldwide.
The Tourism chapter goes beyond environmental impact to examine the social dimensions of ocean tourism and the governance arrangements — or gaps — that shape whether tourism supports or undermines sustainable ocean development.
