Blue economy and aquaculture before and during the pandemic era: a systematic literature review

Abstract

PurposeThe paper provides a contribution of systematisation to the literature on the blue economy and aquaculture as challenging issues for achieving sustainable growth and a circular economy. The growing scientific interest in recent years and the increased attention in political agendas make the blue economy and aquaculture as promising fields for scientific investigation. The latter has been confirmed during a particular period too as the pandemic times. To identify those areas of specialisation emerging from the intersection of such topics, the paper embraces a systematic literature review for inspiring future research.Design/methodology/approachThe study covers a period of 20 years by including 85 papers extracted from the Scopus database. Through the adoption of VOSviewer, the investigation explores the main descriptive statistics, while content analysis has been embraced to identify thematic areas.FindingsThe main results of this study are about statistics (i.e. publication trends, geographic distribution, most frequent keywords and most influential authors, etc.). Three main thematic areas have been identified in this study: SDGs and policies for sustainable development, food and energy, business models and managerial issues.Practical implicationsPractical implications arise both for firms and policymakers. About the firsts, interesting insights can be derived in terms of business model innovation, collaborative approaches and technological exploration. About policymakers, inspiration in terms of renewal of strategic guidelines, creation of enabling contextual conditions and evidences for new regulations can be noted.Originality/valueElements of original contributions can be identified in the adoption of an SLR to verify the advancement of the debate till the recent pandemic.

Guest editorial: Circular economy in the agri-food, tourism and hospitality industries in the post-pandemic era

“…2.1 Circular economy and sustainable strategies in the agri-food sector Silvestri et al (2024) have provided a systematic literature review on the themes of blue economy and aquaculture, defining them as challenging issues to achieve sustainable growth and circular economy. The authors have investigated the growing interest payed by public authorities and researchers on the blue economy and the aquaculture over 20 years.…”

“…Silvestri et al . (2024) have provided a systematic literature review on the themes of blue economy and aquaculture, defining them as challenging issues to achieve sustainable growth and circular economy.…”

Strategi Peningkatan Ketahanan Ekonomi Untuk Perikanan Berkelanjutan Berbasis Konsep Blue Economy

“…Sebaliknya pandemi covid 19 memberikan dampak positif, yakni berkurangnya polusi udara dan kerusakan, dikarenakan banyak pelaku usaha baik masyarakat maupun pengusaha melakukan aktivitasnya dari rumah, sehingga mengurangi karbondioksida dari pembakaran kendaraan bermotor setiap harinya, dampak positif yang utama adalah semakin banyak bermunculan industri rumah tangga yang dilakukan secara online dan memperluas market sharenya melalu e-marketplace sehingga dapat menambah pendapatan dan meningkatkan perekonomian keluarga, jika dikembangkan secara kreatif dan inovatif dapat menjadi penggerak ekonomi yang berkelanjutan. Karena pembangunan ekonomi yang berkelanjutan dapat menjadi basis penentuan kebijakan pembangunan nasional (Alharthi & Hanif, 2020;Banu, 2020;Silvestri et al, 2022). Salah satu industri yang terdampak pandemi covid 19 adalah industri kelautan dan perikanan.…”