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ClearSuccessful Blue Economy Examples With an Emphasis on International Perspectives
This study examines successful international examples of Blue Economy development - sustainable ocean-based economic activities - drawing lessons for policy and practice from marine aquaculture, renewable energy, and ocean tourism initiatives. The examples illustrate how well-governed ocean industries can deliver economic benefits while protecting the marine environment from pollution threats including microplastics.
Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions in Expanding The Blue Economy in Sri Lanka: Special Reference to The Fisheries Sector
Researchers analyzed the opportunities, challenges, and solutions for expanding the blue economy in Sri Lanka with a focus on the fisheries sector. The study emphasizes the importance of sustainable marine resource utilization while addressing environmental threats including plastic pollution that affect ocean ecosystem health.
Marine Pollution and Sustainable Blue Economy in the Bay of Bengal: Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh
This review assessed marine pollution in the Bay of Bengal affecting Bangladesh's blue economy, identifying plastic and microplastic pollution from land-based runoff, fishing activities, and shipbreaking as major threats to fisheries and sustainable marine resource use.
From Ocean Science to Sustainable Blue Economy
This overview examined the concept of sustainable blue economy for India, covering fishery resource management, seabed mineral potential, and coastal ecosystem services as components of ocean-dependent economic development. The paper argued that advancing blue economy objectives requires integrating ocean science knowledge with inclusive social development and environmental security.
Ocean Solutions That Benefit People, Nature and the Economy
This report examines ocean-based solutions that can simultaneously benefit people, nature, and the economy. The study balances hope and concern while presenting concrete examples of sustainable approaches to ocean management and conservation.
Blue Economy in Malaysia: An Endeavour of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This review examined Malaysia's progress toward sustainable blue economy development and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals related to ocean health. It identified gaps in policy implementation and research coverage, including limited data on marine plastic pollution in Malaysian waters. The paper calls for stronger institutional frameworks to protect coastal and marine environments while supporting economic growth.
How Does the Blue Economy Align with Sustainability? A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends and Themes
Despite its title referencing the blue economy and sustainability, this paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of academic literature on ocean-based economic activities — not microplastic pollution specifically. It examines publication trends, key research themes, and leading institutions in blue economy research and is not directly relevant to microplastics or human health.
Plastic Recovery and Utilization: From Ocean Pollution to Green Economy
This review examines strategies for recovering and utilizing ocean plastic waste within a green economy framework, covering collection technologies, recycling pathways, and circular economy approaches to transform marine plastic pollution into valuable resources.
Current Status and Trends of Blue Economy Development in Indonesia: Policy Direction, Practice-driven Approaches, and Regional Collaboration
This review examines Indonesia's blue economy development trajectory, analyzing policy directions, practice-driven approaches, and regional collaboration strategies, while identifying sustainability challenges including overexploitation of marine resources and the integration of digital transformation into ocean-based economic activities.
Microplastics: The imperative influencer in blueprint of blue economy
This review examines how microplastic pollution threatens the blue economy, which includes industries that depend on healthy oceans such as fishing, tourism, and shipping. Microplastics reduce seafood quality, damage coastal environments that attract tourists, and increase costs for marine industries through equipment fouling and contamination. The authors call for coordinated global action among governments, businesses, and researchers to address microplastic pollution before it causes further economic and health damage.
Economía azul y su planificación espacial
This Spanish-language article reviews the concept of the Blue Economy and its spatial planning in the context of sustainable ocean management. Blue Economy frameworks must address microplastic pollution, which threatens the fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism sectors that coastal economies depend on.
Pathways and Policies of Blue Economy in Supporting Carbon-Neutrality Target
This policy paper examines how ocean-based economies can grow sustainably while protecting marine ecosystems, proposing an integrated ocean management framework that balances economic goals with biodiversity conservation and carbon neutrality targets.
An Overview of the Current Trends in Marine Plastic Litter Management for a Sustainable Development
This review summarizes current knowledge about marine plastic litter, from its land-based origins to its distribution across ocean environments, and evaluates recovery and recycling strategies. Researchers found that while technologies for collecting and recycling marine plastics are advancing, significant economic and logistical barriers remain. The study emphasizes that a circular economy approach, combining prevention, collection, and material recovery, is essential for addressing ocean plastic pollution.
Blue Entrepreneurship: a New Agenda for Sustainability of Seas and Oceans
This paper introduces blue entrepreneurship as a framework for sustainable ocean-based business models, arguing that economic activity in marine environments must be guided by environmental stewardship to protect seas and coastlines from pollution.
Fish to finance: unraveling the economic threads of Bangladesh's Blue Economy
This review traced the evolution of Bangladesh's blue economy from its historical maritime heritage to its current opportunities in fisheries, shipping, and ocean resource development, examining economic threads linking these sectors. The paper assessed strategies for Bangladesh to sustainably develop its extensive coastal and maritime assets.
Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization
This study examines global ocean governance frameworks and argues that achieving 'ecological civilization' requires coordinated international responses to mounting threats including climate change, ocean acidification, microplastic pollution, and overexploitation of marine resources.
Valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services: a useful way to manage and conserve marine resources?
This review examines whether assigning monetary values to marine biodiversity and ecosystem services effectively supports ocean conservation and management. The authors find that while ecosystem valuation is an established approach on land, its use in marine environments lags behind due to the practical challenges of ocean research and complex governance structures.
Impact of Plastic Pollution on the Economic Growth and Sustainability of Blue Economy in Nigeria
This systematic review examines how plastic pollution threatens Nigeria's ocean-based economy, including its fishing and tourism industries. The research found that plastic waste also harms human health through water contamination, and that weak laws and poor waste management are making the problem worse.
A Road Map for Scaling Private Sector Financing for the Blue Economy in Thailand
This report examines ways to increase private sector investment in Thailand's blue economy, covering aquaculture and marine renewable energy. The report briefly touches on marine pollution, including plastic waste, as a challenge to sustainable ocean development.
Mavi Ekonomi, Karmaşık Zorluklar: Bangladeş’te Deniz Turizminin Geleceği
Researchers examined the opportunities and challenges facing marine tourism development in Bangladesh, assessing the economic, environmental, and cultural potential of the blue economy through qualitative analysis. The study identified key barriers including environmental threats, infrastructure deficiencies, and regulatory gaps that constrain sustainable sea tourism growth.
The Future of Fisheries Co-Management in The Context of Sustainable Blue Economy and Green Deal: There Is No Green Without Blue !
This paper assessed the extent to which fisheries co-management schemes in Europe are supporting sustainable blue economy principles and climate adaptation in fishing communities. Sustainable fisheries governance also addresses plastic pollution from fishing gear, which is a major source of ocean microplastics.
Future importance of healthy oceans: Ecosystem functions and biodiversity, marine pollution, carbon sequestration, ecosystem goods and services
This review examines the health of the Bay of Bengal large marine ecosystem, identifying climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss as major threats. Microplastic pollution is among the chemical threats identified, with serious implications for fisheries that support hundreds of millions of people in South and Southeast Asia.
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector
Researchers analyzed sustainability reports from 1,664 companies across 19 sectors, finding that only 7% disclosed on ocean-related sustainable development goals, though 51% showed awareness of their pressures on marine environments, highlighting a major accountability gap in private-sector ocean governance.
Knowledge-based science in support of the blue growth ambition for small island developing states
This review examines knowledge-based science in support of blue economy development for small island developing states (SIDS), analyzing the unique challenges these nations face in sustainably managing coastal and marine resources. The study identifies key threats including climate change, sea-level rise, and increasing storm intensity, while assessing research priorities for balancing economic use with conservation.