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  • The global environmental crisis necessitates sustainable and equitable ocean resource management.
  • Transdisciplinary research and knowledge-to-action approaches are vital for transformative change.
  • Effective application of these approaches remains a challenge for social actors.

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  • To assess perceptions of federal government institutional entrepreneurs on marine spatial planning (MSP) in Brazil.
  • To analyze the structure and dynamics of the emerging MSP socio-political arena.
  • To identify barriers and opportunities for regime transformation in ocean governance.

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  • Twelve participatory network mapping activities were conducted.
  • High-level federal government institutional entrepreneurs were interviewed.
  • A five-step functional ocean governability analysis was performed.

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  • Informants perceived the MSP arena as self-enclosed within federal government structures.
  • Perceptions were conservative, narrow, and unambitious, hindering regime transformation.
  • Limited awareness of external capacities perpetuates low performance in the MSP arena.

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  • Transformative change in MSP requires envisioning interactional narratives and coevolutionary dynamics.
  • Building awareness of synergies among area-based responses is crucial.
  • Addressing inter-network limitations and power asymmetries is necessary for improved ocean governance.