Improving, strengthening, and fine tuning, as well as developing, revitalizing, conserving,
and preserving, are all words commonly used in an urban and regional planner's …

The article addresses the broader relationships between seaweed and algae as a marine
resource, destination development, and sustainability. In many European countries, an …

Fisheries' supply of ecosystem services depends on recruiting, maintaining and—in cases of
overfishing—preventing fishers' participation. Participation is influenced by fishers' levels of …

Abstract The establishment of Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) in EU Member States
aims at increasing employment and territorial cohesion in coastal and inland fisheries …

This article analyses the role of small-scale fisheries in the era of crises that increase
fisheries' vulnerability. Crises may also trigger a reconsideration of the value of small-scale …

The marine environment has an important role to play in the change-over to a green
economy where the blue fields of the sea can form new and expanded cultivation spaces …

Finnish small-scale fisheries have declined in the face of technological development,
urbanization, and industrialization, yet fishing livelihoods have survived in coastal and lake …

5 Results: Key conditions-An overview 41 6 Results: InItial conditions: Strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats 44 6.1 Blue economy (BE) and sustainable …

The rapid development of plastic production the last couple of decades has led to extensive
use of plastic products and vast problems with littering, waste management and exploitation …