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Issues of context, capacity and scale : essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy

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Date
01/04/2022
Author
Niner, Holly J.
Barut, Noel C.
Baum, Tom
Diz, Daniela
Pozo, Daniela Laínez del
Laing, Stuart
Lancaster, Alana Malinde S.N.
McQuaid, Kirsty A.
Mendo, Tania
Morgera, Elisa
Maharaj, Payal N.
Okafor-Yarwood, Ifesinachi
Ortega-Cisneros, Kelly
Warikandwa, Tapiwa V.
Rees, Sian
Keywords
Sustainable development goals
Blue economy
Marine governance
Marine natural capital
Ocean economy
Benefit sharing
GC Oceanography
GE Environmental Sciences
HB Economic Theory
3rd-DAS
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Abstract
The blue economy has roots in the international arena of sustainable development and sets out to unlock opportunities for economy and society whilst protecting and enhancing marine environments. To date there has been no analysis of how this overarching intention for sustainability has influenced the rapid development of blue economy policies at national and regional scales. In this article, we analyse the synergies and conflicts between blue economy policies from a diversity of national and regional policies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We show that to maintain critical alignment with targets for sustainability, place-based contextual development of blue economies that meet the needs of all actors is necessary. These needs relate to ensuring resilience against future environmental and political shocks, the maintenance of the ecological basis for thriving blue economies, and capacity development at all levels to support effective and equitable governance. Results indicate that co-production will be important to achieve sustainable blue economies.
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Niner , H J , Barut , N C , Baum , T , Diz , D , Pozo , D L D , Laing , S , Lancaster , A M S N , McQuaid , K A , Mendo , T , Morgera , E , Maharaj , P N , Okafor-Yarwood , I , Ortega-Cisneros , K , Warikandwa , T V & Rees , S 2022 , ' Issues of context, capacity and scale : essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy ' , Environmental Science and Policy , vol. 130 , pp. 25-35 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.001
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Environmental Science and Policy
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.001
ISSN
1462-9011
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Funding: This work was supported by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), One Ocean Hub (Grant Ref: NE/S008950/1).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24747

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