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Blue Economy in the Mediterranean. Barcelona: Union for the Mediterranean (2017)

The Blue Economy is “the set of human activities depending on the sea and/or underpinned by land-sea interactions in the context of sustainable development, and notably including industrial and service sectors such as aquaculture, fisheries, blue biotechnologies, coastal and maritime tourism, shipping, ship-building/repair, ports, ocean energy and marine renewable energy, including offshore wind, which are among the main traditional and emerging economic maritime sectors in the Mediterranean Sea basin”1. UN Environment defines the Blue Economy as a "green economy in a blue world", since "a global transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient Green Economy will not be possible unless the seas and oceans are a key part of these urgently needed transformations"2. The goal of the Blue Economy is therefore to face the global, environmental, economic and social crises of the last decades, looking at the ocean resources as development spaces that, used sustainably, may trigger economic prosperity

30 aug. 2018

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