Appropriate governance structures are extremely important for fishery-dependent
communities in developing integrated territorial development strategies and an adaptive …

Terms like blue growth (as well as the blue economy) have become the new buzzword
inscribing a new era where the seas are recognized as potential drivers for the European …

The ocean, and the life that dwells in it, is the largest carbon sink of our planet, absorbing
more than 25 percent of all CO2 emissions, and over 90 percent of the excess heat …

Small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean represent a significant part of the fisheries
industry and their substantial social, economic and place attachment related role has always …

Blue Growth has become one of the key topics of ocean management. It is defined as a
holistic framework for an environmentally friendly and socio-economically sustainable …

The era of blue growth, underpinned by neoliberal policy discourses, has been pervasive in
the promulgation of European marine governance and policies in the past decade, with little …

New EU policy initiatives within the Maritime Strategy Framework Directive, the Integrated
Maritime Policy, the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, the offshore Energy policy and …

In this paper, we employ a “doughnut” economic approach to comprehensively assess the
state of the purse-seiners fisheries sector in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. The …

Coastal and terrestrial fisheries communities in Europe, often economically marginalised,
are likely to face severe impacts as climate change becomes more acute. Although progress …

The blue bioeconomy is gaining momentum in EU policy debate and various national
government strategies as a pathway towards a more sustainable society. Linked to the …