The Lighthouse Forum

The Lighthouse Forum is aimed to define positions on individual topics of sustainability, to give orientation and to set goals in the long-term process of sustainable development in the relationship between humans and the sea.

The aim of the forum is also to promote solution-oriented interdisciplinary dialogue. The preparation and management of projects regularly raise more in-depth issues which are directly and indirectly connected to the content of the project. The Forum picks up on these issues and places them in a wider context.

News:

11/12/2009 - Time to act in Copenhagen and afterwards: Ocean and Climate are locked in a continuous dance, the condition of oneprofoundly affecting the other. This powerful synergy is complicated and constantly adjusting to human interventions. Through the website OCEANCLIMATE.ORG you can explore this complexity in its many forms and express your views through our OCEAN-CLIMATE-FORUM.

23/11/2009 - World leaders should recognize the immense potential of the ocean to reduce global warming by capturing carbon, if we are to avoid a serious climate crisis. The IUCN report, supported by Natural England, UNEP and the Lighthouse Foundation, and compiled by leading scientists in this field, provides the latest evidence of the ocean’s ability to store carbon and the role each of these marine ecosystems play in reducing the negative effects of climate change. Download, pdf 1,8MB

Forums

	Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands The Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands was founded in September 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa,...
	Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea The main goal of this Forum is to join efforts and establish necessary collaborative mechanisms between member institutions, in order to optimize the work that is being conducted in the Patagonian Sea...
	Youth Visioning for Island Living - What does the future hold? Youth Visioning for Island Living has taken great steps forward in 2006. This development has contributed to fine tuning the project’s work and also high-lighted the necessity of formulating a long term strategy for the future...

Organisation and Justice

	IFLOS Summer Academy for the Law of the Sea 2008 Die Stiftung International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS) veranstaltet eine jährlich stattfindende Sommerakademie im Seegerichtshof in Hamburg...(in German)
	1.International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS) Acadamy 2007 The theme of this First Academy was “Uses and Protection of the Sea – Legal, Economic and Natural Science Perspectives” with a special and interdisciplinary focus on marine environmental protection...(pdf-download, 432k)
	International Maritime Organisations The seminar “International Maritime Organisations and their Contribution to a sustainable Use of the Seas” which was held in the winter semester 2004/5 at the University of Hamburg attempts to cast a light on some of the most important...

Science and Research

	Ecological balance of salmon farming and wild salmon fishing The influences that salmon farming, on the one hand, and wild salmon fishing, on the other, are subject to, taking into consideration the life cycle and socio-economic aspects...
	Deep-water benthic ecosystems of oceanic islands in the Azores The deep slopes of oceanic islands and undersea mountains are isolated environments with unique biocoenoses that are threatened by fishing and global climate change....
	Collection and preservation Scientific collections document the incredible diversity of life on earth, and this is not just limited to the present time - provided that the perishable specimens do not perish thanks to thorough preservation in alcohol and formalin...

Shipping

	Küstenschifffahrt: Hintergründe, Zusammenhänge, Perspektiven Während Europas Straßen zunehmend der Verkehrsinfarkt droht, konkurrieren kleine Häfen um ihren Anteil am Warenumschlag. Das Potential der Küstenschifffahrt wird noch nicht richtig wahr genommen...(in German)
	Marine science for Seafarers Many people work with or at sea, such as seafarers, maritime students, and land-based and regulatory personnel. For these marine professionels...(pdf, 1,9 MB)

Experiments

	The Cape Farewell Expedition Cape Farewell is a series of expeditions into the Arctic, through a route previously icebound but now passable. The journeys explore the very seas that hold the key to understanding the health of the worlds' ocean currents...
	Adrift – Tales of Ocean fragility Das Buch „Adrift: Fabeln über die Empfindlichkeit der Ozeane“ wurde im Oktober 2008 veröffentlicht, mit Geschichten über sonderbare Haie und Geisterfischerei auf Hoher See...(in German)

Tourism

	Citizen of the Ocean The “Citizens of the Ocean” project takes up the idea of the World Ocean Network (WON) in the shape of an “Ocean passport” and transfers the concept to the German-speaking area...
	Cruise Tourism Report 2008 On 15 January 2008 Conservation International, Cozumel’s Department of Tourism and the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association witnessed the culmination of their 12-month partnership with the signing of a groundbreaking conservation agreement...
	Cruise Tourism in the Antarctic The dangers that lie behind polar cruise tourism were graphically illustrated when the Antarctic cruise ship MS Explorer struck what was believed to be an iceberg on 23 November 2007 and sank in sub-zero temperatures in the Bransfield Strait...
	Cruise tourism in the Arctic Tourists have travelled on ships to the Arctic for a long time. On Svalbard, for example, paying travellers first visited this archipelago between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole by boat in the 1890s...
	Kap Verde: Workshop zur nachhaltigen touristischen Entwicklung In Zukunft sind auf Kap Verde erhebliche Investitionen in Hotelanlagen und in All-Inklusive Resorts zu erwarten. Auf die Begleiterscheinungen einer massiven Ausweitung des Tourismus jedoch scheinen weder die Regierung, noch...(in German, Spanisch)