Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands

Oceans are governed by multiple policies at international, regional and national levels. National level have traditionally been sector-based, covering fisheries, tourism, environment etc. Recently more integrated holistic Ocean Policies (NOP) promulgated. The Pacific also has well-developed ocean-related spanning decades. work presented here uses lexicometric analysis to map the interlinkages between determine if they evolving synergistically. Focusing on Solomon Islands, due its reliance ocean producing a NOP in 2018, 13,622 expressions were extracted from corpus of 8 10 policies. Network displayed limited differentiation NOP, sector-based Clustering showed progressive splitting single cluster, rather than formation number separate clusters. This behaviour reflects thematic interlocking policies: all share many themes, integrative add few additional sectoral themes. themes rarely addressed include energy, agriculture, pollution education. was predominantly built existing or their main setting new direction governance. benefit may be less about content itself, but creation allied cross-ministerial architecture. With intense pressure oceans resources present times, there will growing need for substantive policy evolution.