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Developing the blue economy in Caribbean and other small states /

23 Mar 2016

Recognition of the services and resources provided by oceans has accelerated in recent years, spurred by the opportunities and challenges posed by a rapidly growing global population, increasing global demand for food and energy, advances in technology, and changes in patterns of global trade and human consumption. [...] It adapts many features of the green economy, including distribution infrastructure, science-based management plans environmentally sustainable development, fairness in the that help quickly restore fish stocks, and supportive regional and use of resources and the pursuit of sustainable development international policy and regulatory frameworks that effectively without degrading the environment. [...] Oceans use of coastal and marine resources; promoting single-use and generate between 50 and 85 percent of the oxygen in the multi-use coastal and ocean spaces; and protecting coastal earth’s atmosphere (Sekerci and Petrovskii 2015) and provide people’s livelihoods threatened by climate change. [...] Climate change impacts are severely circumscribing to participate in and gain from the blue economy and, until small states’ ambitions to pursue a blue economy and blue growth recently, have lacked access to data and information important path by causing coastal erosion and land loss, often significant and to planning and production, including price, information direct infrastructure damage, and t [...] Yet small states, significant investments are needed in enabling infrastructure in which bear the most immediate and direct consequences in many sectors, including in energy, sustainable tourism, coastal and each case, cannot pursue the blue economy in the context of maritime transport, fisheries and the promotion of food security, degraded ocean ecosystems and without adjusting to climate ensurin
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Authors

Rustomjee, Cyrus

Pages
8
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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