Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and underscores how Blue Economy dynamics are situated in regional contexts and shaped by the people who live there.
The book highlights the Blue Economy concept as a potential driver of regionally sensitive, ecologically embedded, and community-focused sustainability. The scope for Blue Economy to form a core cog in our low-carbon future is obvious, from the potential for renewable energy production and coastal resilience building to possibilities for sustainable food production and the delivery of economic opportunities for peripheral communities. However, fundamental questions remain on how to meaningfully deliver these promises, such as how to avoid embedding a model of damaging extractivism, as per the terrestrial economy, and how to deliver on the key social sustainability principles of human well-being, equity, and justice when planning and developing blue economies. As the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development opens, this book provides a timely reminder of the richness, diversity, and potential of coastal and marine spaces. It advances geographical and transdisciplinary understandings of the Blue Economy and sets a baseline for continued scholarly engagement with the Blue Economy from a variety of perspectives.
This timely contribution will be of interest to policy makers, academics, industry leaders, decision makers, and stakeholders working in or connected to the Blue Economy Sphere and working in the fields of Economic Geography, Regional Development, Public Policy and Planning, Environmental Studies, and Coastal Zone Management.
Table of ContentsList Of Figures
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List Of Contributors
Foreword: Michelle Voyer
Editors Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
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- Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions
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PART 1): BE People - A Blue Economy for who?
- A Blue Economy for who? Linking marine social sciences with blue economy discourse
- Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Coastal Transitions: Floating away from the DAD model toward the MOM method
- Community acceptance of Blue Energy: Future research trajectories for understanding place-technology fit preferences
- Conflicts and Communities: Marine Aquaculture and the Blue Economy
- Of fragile communities and big dreams: the Finnafjordur harbour project in Northeast Iceland
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PART 2) BE Regions - Blue Economies in Place
- The Blue Economy and Its Geographies: The Case of Turkey
- Experimentation and enactive research: Building a knowledge infrastructure for marine social science
- The Blue Economy, Climate, Tourism, and Social Injustice in Barbuda
- Conceptualizing entangled Blue Economy and Marine Spatial Planning: Netting Blue Growth and Sustainable Seas in the UK
- Blue Economy Agenda for the Baltic Sea Region
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PART 3) BE Futures – Blue Economies in Transition
- Deciding port futures: Ports of Auckland, Marine Spatial Planning and contested ethics in Blue Economy plan making
- Blue Economy Policies in the European Union: The Case of French Maritime Clusters.
- The Evolution of Blue Carbon: Exploring the Burgeoning Role of Macroalgae in Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration
- Strengthening industry and academic links through transdisciplinary action research: An introspective reflection of a collaborative water quality, biodiversity, and aquaculture initiative
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CONCLUSION
- Situating Just Transitions: Sustainability, Innovation, and Inclusion in the Blue Economy?
