{"id":18,"date":"2019-01-08T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/marine-regions-forum\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:32:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.prog-ocean.org\/marine-regions-forum\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A transdisciplinary and co-creative approach is at the heart of the development of the Marine Regions Forum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Marine Regions Forum is developed and implemented in a co-creative process by a team of researchers and experts from different fields and disciplines such as marine policy, environmental governance or ocean science. 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