African Integrated Maritime Strategy 2050: Challenges for Implementation

Adewumi, Ibukun Jacob

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“…Enhanced and holistic knowledge of the ocean's system, including its physical and biochemical processes and socio-ecological characteristics, are imperative for achieving global ocean agendas and sustainable development (Österblom and Folke, 2013;citealpBR187;Adewumi, 2020a). However, there is a dearth of the needed information and knowledge to fully understand and govern the ocean (Halpern et al, 2019), coupled with an array of pressing issues confronting today's coastal and marine domains.…”

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“…Also, this paper focuses on Africa, where ocean governance and policy remain woefully understudied compared with other inquiry areas, such as financial outlook, gender equality, entrepreneurship, democratisation, conflict, aid effectiveness, and ethnicity. Even where there have been studies on ocean governance and policy (Agbakoba, 2006;Diop et al, 2011;Dzidzornu, 2011;Hewawasam et al, 2015;UNECA, 2016a;Vrancken, 2018;Belhabib et al, 2019;Adewumi, 2020a), there are few new inquiries into how African ocean is governed from a comparative institutional and political perspective. In this respect, this paper's author poses two mutually exclusive questions: are there linkages between the logic and operations of ROG and the general frameworks/instruments of GOG?…”

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Exploring the Nexus and Utilities Between Regional and Global Ocean Governance Architecture

Adewumi

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Regional and global ocean governance share complex, co-evolutionary histories in which both regimes – among others – interacted with and used the ocean and resources therein to consolidate, expand, and express power. Simultaneously, regional and global ocean governance relations have changed continuously, particularly when we are trying to understand their differences within the logic of regionalisation, regionalism, and globalisation. The paper is generally based on deductive reasoning and reflects scholarship in security studies, political science, international law, international relation, development studies, and African studies. It delves into the critical aspect of understanding the nexus/relationship between regional and global ocean governance in critical traditional and contemporary ocean policy domains, specifically from an African regional ocean governance standpoint. Ocean governance processes that are historically confronted by globalisation, multilateralism, and post-colonisation are confronted by the rise of regionalism, especially the need for nation-states and regions to respond to and manage traditional and emerging ocean challenges. Responses to these challenges by various actors, including states, economic blocks, private sector, financial institutions, and non-governmental organisations, development partners, etc., result in different forms of relationships that refocus regions’ activities toward globally defined ocean agendas. A review of different policy domains (including maritime security, environmental, economic, and socio-political governance) critical for regional ocean governance sets a robust background for understanding the contextual factors and concerns inherent in the regional-global ocean governance nexus. These outcomes, therefore, help us to arrive at a five-fold taxonomy of different types/degrees of linkages developed around the regional-global ocean governance relationship spectrum described as (1) discrete, (2) conflictual, (3) cooperative, (4) symmetric, and (5) ambiguous. Comparatively, experience and perspective from Africa are utilised to support raised arguments about these linkages. Furthermore, this spectrum allows for the diagnosis of the utilities and most prevalent arguments that regional governance’s effectiveness is directly related to the nature of the interaction between regional governance schemes and global governance; and vice-versa. This paper’s outcomes reveal how government, institutions, actors, and researchers address the relationship between regional and global ocean governance and generate a valuable way to think about current and future global and regional ocean governance direction while outlining some logical possibilities for an effective form of ocean governance.

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Exploring the Nexus and Utilities Between Regional and Global Ocean Governance Architecture

Adewumi

2021

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“…In Africa, while blue growth makes substantial contributions to the economy through various sectors, the potential of BE has yet to be fully recognized (UNECA, 2016). The prospects of BE to influence Africa's economic growth was first highlighted in the African Union Integrated Maritime Strategy (AIMS) 2050 (AU, 2012;Adewumi, 2020) and advanced with the adoption of the African Charter on Maritime Security and Safety and Development in Africa (or the Lomé Charter) by the African Union Assembly in 2016 (AU, 2016). As set out by the African Union's Agenda 2063, the BE is perceived as the continent's future because its benefits extend beyond the shores of coastal states and create opportunities for adjacent landlocked communities and countries (AU, 2015).…”

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The Blue Economy–Cultural Livelihood–Ecosystem Conservation Triangle: The African Experience

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amalgamates the top-down and bottom-up approaches to BE management. Achieving the goal of successful blue growth in Africa is now even more challenged by the implications of COVID-19 on the BE sectors. Reimagining and rebuilding a resilient BE in Africa post-coronavirus will require a strong political commitment to promoting a balance between economic, social and environmental benefits in line with the African Union's Agenda 2063 and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

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African Integrated Maritime Strategy 2050: Challenges for Implementation

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Exploring the Nexus and Utilities Between Regional and Global Ocean Governance Architecture

Exploring the Nexus and Utilities Between Regional and Global Ocean Governance Architecture

The Blue Economy–Cultural Livelihood–Ecosystem Conservation Triangle: The African Experience

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