Blue growth and ecosystem services

Shades of blue: what do competing interpretations of the Blue Economy mean for oceans governance?

“…All four lenses promoted the practice of quantifying the value of the natural capital provided by the oceans, and the 'oceans as good business' lens particularly focused on valuation of the ocean sectors and industries (the ocean economy). Despite criticisms of this approach as a form of neoliberalization of nature (Castree, 2010), proponents argue that quantification of use and non-use values provides a common language to assist in informing management actions, including spatial planning, and trade off decision making, as well as providing a means of more accurately accounting for the true cost of externalities (C. S. Colgan, 2016;Ebarvia, 2016;Mulazzani and Malorgio, 2017;Patil, et al, 2016). They argue it also provides an important tool to drive conservation through, for example, payment for ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, or Blue Carbon (Lau, 2013;Siikamäki, Sanchirico, Jardine, McLaughlin, & Morris, 2013;Warner, et al, 2016).…”

“…Use of the term 'Blue Economy' has been increasing exponentially over the last decade (Mulazzani and Malorgio, 2017). There remain, however, many unanswered questions about the conceptual and practical applications of the emerging, and increasingly influential notion of a Blue Economy.…”

Sustainable Port Development Based on the Blue Economy Framework in China: The Example of Qingdao Port

“…The "Blue Economy" was first discussed for the assessment of the value of the ocean in relation to the development of the marine ecosystem and investments in industry [11] during the 2012 Rio+20 Conference of United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) [12]. From then on, the concept of Blue Economy has spread throughout the world [1] and has been adopted by different organizations to emphasize the significance of the marine ecosystem, ocean industries, socio-economic growth and so on.…”

Development of Marine and Coastal Tourism Based on Blue Economy

“…Through the Ministry of Tourism, Indonesia has targeted the visit of foreign tourists to Indonesia in 2019 th as much as 20 million while the achievement in 2014th as much as 9 million. For domestic tourists travel is targeted to increase from 250 million trips in 2014th to 275 million in 2019th [5,10,11].…”