Mare 2021 People and the Sea Conference

From the MARE (Centre for Maritime Research) Website:

The 11th MARE People and the Sea Conference will take place from the 28th of June to 2nd of July, 2021. This year, the conference will be held virtually.

Limits to Blue Growth?

For decades sustainable development has served as guiding concept for policy makers, including those concerned in coastal and ocean governance. At the same time, the ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ have nowadays become popular concepts in marine policy. Notions on blue growth especially ask attention for new uses of the oceans, such as renewable energy (wind at sea), deep sea mining and deep-sea fishing but also aim at highlighting ecosystem services that have societal value (coastal protection, CO2 storage and biodiversity). The concept aims to reconcile two seemingly opposing uses of the oceans: exploitation and conservation, in the same way as was intended with the use of ‘sustainable development’. The concept also seems to promise that there still is a new, not yet reached frontier for economic expansion.

The conference theme “Limits to Blue Growth” is divided into the 6 streams:

• Stream 1: Making Blue Livelihoods
• Stream 2: Knowing the Blue
• Stream 3: Governing, Steering and Managing the Blue Realm 
• Stream 4: Emerging Sectors in the Blue Space
• Stream 5: Resisting Blue Appropriations 
• Stream 6: Blue Crisis 

The online conference platform can be found here.

You can register here for the conference. 

An Overview of the programme can be found here.

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