Papers by Lawrence Sciberras
Implementing the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development : making the case for the international maritime organization and its stakeholders
Doutoramento em Estudos de DesenvolvimentoIn September 2015, the United Nations (UN) officially a... more Doutoramento em Estudos de DesenvolvimentoIn September 2015, the United Nations (UN) officially adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (UN, 2016). The main collective aims of the 17 SDGs are to end poverty, hunger and inequality, to take action on climate change and the environment, improve access to health and education, and build strong institutions and partnerships. More than three years have passed into this 15-year process, and while many countries have started implementing the SDGs, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are a number of issues concerning the implementation of the SDGs, including challenges within the United Nation’s Development System (UNDS). The attainment of any sustainable development programme including the three dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, and environmental) is known to be inherently complex particularly across horizontal and vertical boundaries in policy...
Marine Policy, 2020
Industrial Fishing is a hard and dangerous working environment which, in terms of fatalities, oft... more Industrial Fishing is a hard and dangerous working environment which, in terms of fatalities, often transcends other working domains. Therefore, how safety at sea regulatory measures applied to fishing vessels have reduced the risk of fatalities remains to be a key question. This research focuses on assessing the societal risks to establish whether the current situation is acceptable in the EU and in the rest of the world. It estimates the necessary risk reductions that must take place for the safety measures in the EU to be cost and benefit effective after their implementation. This paper also examines the gap to allow to measure risk reductions for a safety level approach, calculates the current safety level and identifies a way for developing effective safety measures to contribute towards the sustainability of industrial fishing vessels. The paper concludes that, although the fatalities per industrial fishing vessel per year in the EU have been reduced due to the introduction of new industrial fishing vessels, the current situation is not yet acceptable. There is a need for standardised accident reporting and analysis of information to measure risk reductions in terms of fatalities and to develop suitable risk models for long lasting and measurable regulations.
The UN’s 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the maritime transport domain: the role and challenges of IMO and its stakeholders through a grounded theory perspective
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2018
In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) officially adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Dev... more In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) officially adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) (UN, 2016). The attainment of the SDGs requires a strong commitment by all UN Member States, not least by the Member States at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). This empirical research aims to identify the role and challenges of stakeholders at IMO, when implementing the UN’s 2030 Agenda in the international maritime transport domain using a grounded theory approach. This paper describes the methodology and the analytical process undertaken and presents the main findings based on empirical data. The results are presented as a set of six propositions. The first proposition presents the phenomena engulfing Member States at IMO stemming out from lack of knowledge and policy incoherency on the 2030 Agenda at national level. The other five propositions suggest how these challenges could potentially be best alleviated through an IMO-led strategy on sustainable development within the context of the 2030 Agenda, supported by an appropriate governance structure that sees the introduction of strategic actors for coordinating the implementation of the SDGs at national level. With the support of a Task Force, and by also making use of the IMO Member State Audit Scheme (IMSAS), to create more awareness and ownership, the strategic actors could work towards balancing the three dimensions of sustainable development—the economic, the environmental, and the social dimensions—which were found to be imbalanced in the international maritime transport domain.
Establishing an institutional conceptual framework for effective delivery of the United Nations SDGs: an application of grounded theory to assist IMO stakeholders
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs
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Papers by Lawrence Sciberras